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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I am a few weeks late in announcing my theme for spring season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal. In fact, we are now closer to the sixth birthday of The New Leaf Journal than to the official start of spring. But all’s well that ends well,...
I subscribe to Herbert Lui’s “blog on creativity, marketing, and the human condition” with my feed reader. On April 9, 2026, I opened what was then his newest post, titled Creative enfeeblement. I had a feeling based on having read some...
Introducing Bam Adebayo’s 83 Point Game On March 10, 2026, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in a game against the Washington Wizards, which now stands as the second-highest individual scoring effort in NBA history behind...
On April 6, 2024, Jon Jefferson Tan reported on an interview of former NBA player Jason Caffey by Scoop Jackson. Mr. Caffey had enjoyed a solid eight-year NBA career from 1995-06 through 2002-03. Pertinent to the issue we will discuss,...
I occasionally see a headline that makes me think “it would be hard to explain this to someone in [insert year].” That was my first thought when I read a new report by John Hayward of Breitbart titled Uganda Says It Was Cyberattacked...
Marginalia Search Introduction Marginalia Search is a free and open source search engine developed and operated by Viktor Lofgren. It uses its own web crawler to build its index independent of any other search engine (contrast with many...
We are now starting April (and approaching this humble perennially virid online writing magazine’s sixth birthday). When a new month comes, an old month goes. Or in the case of March, it came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. I...
On April 8, 2023, I documented what I described in the headline for my report as an Inflatable colorful Easter egg bunny thing. I stumbled upon said Easter egg bunny thing on the periphery of Cobble Hill, one block from Carroll Gardens...
The New Leaf Journal’s resident fictional dialogue duo, Justin and Justina, found themselves at a discount store. Coincidentally, both of them needed toothpaste. Expand to learn more about my Justin and Justina dialogue series… Justin...
On March 22, 2026, Andreas at 82MHz published a blog post titled Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is). As a threshold matter, I am glad he wrote this as a blog post instead of...
On February 4, 2025, I published Emojam and Emoji Story-Telling Memories. The article was prompted by the Emojam, a Japanese “pager” for kids which only allows for messages made up up of pre-loaded emoji (see Emojam report). I only spent...
On February 23, 2026, Morning Brew published a report headlined Axe body spray wants to cut through the fog. I quote the opening paragraph: Axe is looking to get out of the cloud business. The body spray company knows it’s infamous for...
On June 13, 2021, I photographed “Uncle Susan is a Wolf” graffiti in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I turned that photograph into an investigative Uncle Susan article on December 29 of the same year. While conducting research in the spirit of a...
Note: This post introduces my new on-site Blogroll. You can view the Blogroll, which will be regularly updated, here. I have had a long-time interest in maintaining a blogroll on The New Leaf Journal and had a couple of blogroll pages in...
On March 10, 2026, Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards, which is good for the second highest single-game scoring effort in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points against the New York...