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Keith Munro — Celebration of life, August 1

Come and celebrate the life of Keith "Greaser"...

Community breakfast at St. George’s Anglican Church, May 9

Free community breakfast on Saturday, June 13...

Come out for Almonte Celtfest’s 30th anniversary edition July 3-5!

Almonte Celtfest is celebrating their 30th anniversary...

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Letter from Paris: Hot Times for Seniors in Paris

by Keith Spicer Planning to let loose on that long-dreamt getaway to the City of Light? You can probably handle sightseeing yourself with a good guidebook or, better, a professional guide, but...

Who’s left on the right?

“Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle And the...

Bill Chapman weekly column By the Way to end

After 7 years of loyally contributing to the Millstone, Bill Chapman has decided to end his weekly columns. Bill was one of our first contributors, sending us weekly Friday...
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Not bloody likely!

Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2016, a new year on the civil calendar (also known as the "Western calendar" or "Christian calendar") commonly denominated the...

Christmas in Lapland

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Little Ingrid and her younger brother, Sven, live with their mother and father in Lapland. It is very far...

OMG!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert— That from heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains...

Quitting Alcohol

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When I turned fifty years old I quit smoking tobacco.  We were on a charter flight from somewhere...

Raw material

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. "I Wanna Go to Marz" by John Grant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jQ1_OXBLg Images from the movie 'Weekend'. A story where two gay men...

Ballet is stupid!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Okay, so I have this girl friend.  She's not my girlfriend, she's my girl friend. Anyway her name...

We had a disagreement

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In retrospect it is ticklish to know what exactly triggers an argument between two people who are close to...

Quelle est votre perspective?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is a well known incongruity of evidence in a court of law that if five people watch the same...

Early Morning Rain

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It's 2:00 o'clock in the morning and it's raining. The sound of the rain in the gutters on...

The Retirement Home

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Lately my mother's effect upon me is reminiscent of how Clouseau (the inept and incompetent police detective in the French...

Tabula Rasa

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. According to our good friends at Wikipedia (the internet “Free Encyclopedia”), Tabula Rasa is the epistemological theory that...

Thanksgiving Weekend

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It's Thanksgiving Weekend. And once again we have lots to be thankful for, lots! As a serendipitous added...

Friends

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Until recently I conceived that I could speak with some cogency upon the subject of friends. Probably I viewed the...

The cycle of life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. In what we can all hope to be the fulfillment of life's intended cycle, it is an odd...
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