The New Leaf Journal
The New Leaf Journal
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The New Leaf Journal is a self-hosted WordPress-powered online writing magazine. I launched the site on April 27, 2020. I created the project to host my own writing and that of my friends, which (as of this date) includes Victor V. Gurbo.
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April Intro April 2026, the month including The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday, is in the books. The end of the month means it is time for our month-end review. In this article, I review the month that was in The New Leaf Journal and...
Brief re-introduction On April 27, 2026, I celebrated The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday by announcing a project: I would publish six articles featuring the “wisdom” I have collected from my six years of running this humble online...
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I walked around Red Hook, Brooklyn, with a friend on the afternoon of May 3, 2026. Our walk took us to Red Hook’s Valentino Pier, which has what may be Brooklyn’s best view of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. My friend, who is...
The 2026 edition of Mother’s Day falls on May 10, six days from today (with “today” being May 4, 2026, the date of publication of the instant article). Back in 2021, I published a research article on Anna Jarvis and the early...
The New Leaf Journal celebrated its sixth birthday on April 27, 2026. To celebrate our website’s sixth birthday, I decided to undertake writing a series of six articles on wisdom I have accumulated from running and writing for NLJ. I...
I opened an article by Zoe Skyforest for Hackaday titled GameCube Bot Records Your Play in a Weird Way. The article opened: If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape....
On March 14, 2021, I photographed a “banana bench” outside a townhouse stoop in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Not long after, on April 2, 2021, I documented that banana bench in Brooklyn Banana Bench Photo, wherein I erroneously attributed the...
Happy Birthday, New Leaf Journal! I made The New Leaf Journal public on April 27, 2020. Thus, today, April 27, 2026, is The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday. With the exception of 2024, I have published a “birthday article” for each of...
Yesterday, I published an article about my former dreams of being a basketball coach and my unexpected one-game stint as a baseball coach when I was in high school. While it is the case that I once wanted to be a basketball coach, I...
The headline is about coaching baseball, but let us start elsewhere. Past Basketball Coaching Dreams There was a time when I was a kid that I wanted to be a basketball coach. That time passed. In the end, I never undertook any effort to...
I came across a long-form essay in Aeon by Carlo Iacono, a university librarian, titled Books and screens. Mr. Iacono argued against the idea that phones and other modern technological innovations are driving us toward a post-literate...
In March 2024, I published an essay titled Humane Content in World of Language Models. While I have since taken a stronger stance about describing meaningful writing and media as content, it fits here. This essay was prompted by an...
I subscribe to various Brooklyn-New York City related feeds in my feed collection. On April 17, 2026, one of those feeds included an article by Karina Gerry for New York News 12 titled Free ‘stick library’ pops up in Brooklyn Heights for...