# now ever (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover now ever. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Strongest Bond of All | Issue 46 | Because We Can](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/the-strongest-bond-of-all) _2026-07-30 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ July is Disability Pride Month, coinciding with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed into law on July 26, 1990. ## [Imaginative, Thoughtful & Imperfectly Human](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/imaginative-thoughtful-and-imperfectly) _2026-07-06 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ To be human is to be imperfect, but it’s these choices and sometimes strange components we hand-crafted with our own thoughts, feelings, and ideas that connect us to other creators and readers around us. It’s what makes us fallible, and more importantly, vulnerable. ## [Monet, Van Gogh, and the Drive to Keep Creating](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/monet-van-gogh-and-the-drive-to-keep) _2026-06-01 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Hey friends, ## [I love dogs. And libraries. So, obviously.](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/i-love-dogs-and-libraries-so-obviously/) _2026-05-10 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ Earlier this month I was back at William Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, to speak about my book Lineage and the history of genealogy in early America at Swem Library. It was so much fun to be back on a campus and among friends and colleagues who have meant so much to me. But of course I also took a little time to do research in Special Collections. And I paused to appreciate this lovely portrait,… ## [The Authenticity of Love & Character](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/the-authenticity-of-love-and-character) _2026-05-05 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Hey friends, ## [It's Going To Be Beautiful](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/its-going-to-be-beautiful) _2026-03-31 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Hey friends, ## [Complacency, A Living Death](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/complacency-a-living-death) _2026-03-02 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ First, A Nightmare ## [Footnoting Martha](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/footnoting-martha/) _2026-02-22 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ When I make a list of issues I care most about as a historian, footnotes are at the top. Footnoting (this is not an invitation to debate the comparative virtues of endnotes versus footnotes, or whether publishers who want authors to bury their notes are right or wrong) is a traditional practice with critical value for an age awash in information mush (or worse). Footnotes are a contract between… ## [Coverture, Now More than Ever](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/coverture-now-more-than-ever/) _2026-02-21 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ Coverture is a legal principle in which a married woman's legal identity and capacity is subsumed under her husband's. The post Coverture, Now More than Ever appeared first on Karin Wulf . ## [Art is Rebellion](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/art-is-rebellion) _2026-01-28 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Art is rebellion, and in 2026, rebellion is in vogue. We need to steal back our time, to use our hands, minds, and creativity to fill our souls. Ultimately, we need to push back against AI slop and algorithms that want to hijack our emotions. ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nHqvTuIu8Kxw) _2026-01-28 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [The Empathy Machine](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/the-empathy-machine) _2025-12-23 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ A couple of weeks back, my wife and I braved the cold and snow on a Sunday night to catch a rare, 35mm screening of the 1944 classic, The Curse of the Cat People. The film is the sequel to the classic horror film Cat People, and it’s the directorial debut of one of my favorite directors, Robert Wise. ## [Re: Your Call to Action](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/re-your-call-to-action) _2025-10-29 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Finding your resolve to create in a time of crisis. It may not feel like it, but now is your moment. When we look around at the horrors of the world, it probably feels pointless to sit at our desks and write or take that evening to reflect and create something, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. ## [Creating When the World is Full of Darkness](https://scottwaldyn.substack.com/p/creating-when-the-world-is-full-of) _2025-09-21 · Scott Waldyn · Because We Can_ Hey Friend, ## [Book events! Links and Registration.](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/book-events/) _2025-08-09 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ It s beyond fun to get to talk with you about Lineage, about how genealogy works and about your own experiences. Since Lineage was published I ve had the pleasure of talking with Liz Covart for the best history podcast, in my biased-but-that-doesn t-make-it-wrong opinion, Ben Franklin s World, and recorded a couple more including another favorite, Drafting the Past with Kate Carpenter. You can… ## [“modestly drop a hint that your father had an uncle…”](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/modestly-drop-a-hint-that-your-father-had-an-uncle/) _2025-07-27 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ Making connections in the eighteenth century was often about making family connections. This is a story about an eighteenth-century account that reveals how ambitions of one kind could be understood through genealogy, and how information about family connections was shared among friends and family. It was the summer of 1775, almost exactly 250 years ago. But first, I have to note how much I m… ## [What’s on the Cover? (7)](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/whats-on-the-cover-7/) _2025-06-15 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ Every item on the cover is special but, as I ve noted before, often the aesthetic pleasures of the objects can mask the pain or violence of a family experience. Such is the case with this wonderful sampler, a family record worked by Laura Goodale when she was a teenager, and later submitted as genealogical evidence in her mother s application to receive a veteran s widow s pension. Laura s father,… ## [What’s on the Cover? (6)](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/whats-on-the-cover-6/) _2025-06-08 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ This extraordinary piece is both one of the originating points of my research for Lineage and also one of the most surprising things I found in my last rounds of research for the book. How can it be both? Well, to start there are two versions of this family tree, located across the ocean from one another. I had just added a tidbit about the extended Lloyd family earlier this year, after a… ## [What’s on the Cover? (5)](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/whats-on-the-cover-5/) _2025-06-01 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ I took this picture of Sintha Peck s gravestone in Old Ashford Cemetery in Ashford, Connecticut, on a chilly winter s day a couple of years ago. Cemeteries are remarkable places, and I m particularly drawn to those that memorialize early Americans in eighteenth-century spaces. In the nineteenth century American cemeteries expanded, became larger and even designed (think Mount Auburn), moving away… ## [What’s on the Cover? (4)](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/whats-on-the-cover-4/) _2025-05-24 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ Regular readers will know that a challenge/ joy of working on my new book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America is that I cannot seem to stop the research. Since I finished the book, which to be clear took a long time, I ve continued to amass material but also to extend and deepen some of the arguments and perspectives developed there. Such is the case with my work on… ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/udZwLt7Rokld) _2025-05-24 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [What’s on the Cover? (3)](https://karinwulf.com/tidbits/whats-on-the-cover-3/) _2025-05-18 · Karin Wulf · Karin Wulf_ I ve been rotating counter-clockwise from the top left to highlight the individual items that makes up the cover of Lineage, so we re now at this compelling watercolor family record that s in the lower left. The Craft Family watercolor family record is in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is a beautiful piece, though haunting in its stark recognition of how death shaped…