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FIRE STARTER FOR YOUR FACE: MATCHBOOKS

October 28, 2025 by David Gillaspie

If you smoke cigarettes you need a fire starter. It won’t light itself. A few decades ago, quite a few, it seemed like everyone smoked. I worked in an office in the early 80’s that allowed smoking at your desk. Some people did it with a smoke filter, others just let it rip when they […]

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A CURATED LIFE OF MUSEUM QUALITY

October 16, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Who wouldn’t want a curated life? Curated: carefully chosen and thoughtfully organized or presented We’d get to skip all of the confusion and misunderstandings and go right to the good stuff. Sounds good to me, except for a small part. You know that small part?

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MUSEUM QUALITY IS WHAT BOOMERS CALL THEIR ACCUMULATION

April 5, 2021 by David Gillaspie

Museum quality is a collector’s goal. Leave the bad, take the good. Then what? If possession is nine tenths of the law, what’s the last tenth? After you’ve got what you’ve been looking for, put it in a box, on a shelf, in a case. The idea is to enjoy the company of an artifact, […]

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Good Enough Is Good Enough Already, Perfectionist

September 9, 2017 by David Gillaspie

People love to shop, though not everyone admits they love to shop. Why? Because they want better instead of good enough. They shop for the deal, the steal, the last one in the storage room, the floor model discount, the object with the scratch no one will notice. But you notice. You’ve heard […]

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FIRE STARTER FOR YOUR FACE: MATCHBOOKS

A CURATED LIFE OF MUSEUM QUALITY

MUSEUM QUALITY IS WHAT BOOMERS CALL THEIR ACCUMULATION

Good Enough Is Good Enough Already, Perfectionist

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