VintageReveries

What an 87-Year-Old Genealogy Mystery Taught Me About Research, Data, and Putting Your Work Into the World

Solving an 87-year-old genealogy mystery became an unexpected lesson in research, data literacy, AI-assisted analysis, collaboration, and the value of publishing imperfect work. The breakthrough did not come from one perfect source, but from generations of people preser...

Genealogy as Data Analysis: What Family History Research Has Taught Me About Bad Data, AI, and Finding the Truth

Genealogy is more than old records and family trees. It is data analysis, source evaluation, AI-assisted consistency checking, historical research, and the careful work of separating truth from bad data.

The Power of Self-Calibration (And Letting Go of 32 Vintage Fur Coats)

2025 was a year of massive, earth-shifting changes, and my body essentially demanded a pause. For me, celebration isn't about bubble baths or forced positivity. It’s about recalibration. It’s about taking a hard look at the baggage you carry, realizing you don't nee...

I Built My First SaaS: Reseller Command Center (and Why It Exists)

I built my first SaaS: Reseller Command Center—an AI-powered toolkit for vintage resellers that helps identify pieces, generate platform-ready listings, and remember your goals so you can run your shop with less friction. It’s the “no-setup” version of the workf...

Google Docs Archivist OCR: a free tool for turning vintage scans into clean, usable text

I built a lightweight Google Apps Script that turns folders of scanned images into clean, editable text—right inside Google Docs. It detects columns and tables, preserves order, and outputs pipe-formatted rows you can paste into Sheets or CSV. Perfect for archivists, ...

Heads Down in December: 56 Sales, Custom AI, and Digitizing History

BFCM cleared $1K+ after fees, a no-comps tee sold for $300 in 90 minutes, and I shipped 50+ coats in two weeks. December has been heads-down systems work — theme refresh, database cleanup, precise shipping — plus an AI project that turned a public domain dictionary ...

How Vintage Reselling (and WordPress) Are Saving Me Again

For years, VintageReveries quietly carried me through job changes, pandemic chaos, and burnout. This fall, I rebuilt the site from the ground up on a new Divi layout, automated my social posts, and started listing again in earnest. With just over 100 active listings, I�...

What an 87-Year-Old Genealogy Mystery Taught Me About Research, Data, and Putting Your Work Into the World

Genealogy as Data Analysis: What Family History Research Has Taught Me About Bad Data, AI, and Finding the Truth

The Power of Self-Calibration (And Letting Go of 32 Vintage Fur Coats)

I Built My First SaaS: Reseller Command Center (and Why It Exists)

Google Docs Archivist OCR: a free tool for turning vintage scans into clean, usable text

Heads Down in December: 56 Sales, Custom AI, and Digitizing History

How Vintage Reselling (and WordPress) Are Saving Me Again

This site, and all sites designed by me since 2011, built with love and based on the Divi theme framework.

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