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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On July 22, 2025, I published Happy Cleaners Cargo Trike in Gowanus. The article was centered on photographs I had taken in the previous month of an adorable and endearing three-wheeled laundry pick-up and delivery vehicle seen outside...
Encountering the Fruitmobile at Houston Hobby Airport I had a layover at Houston Hobby Airport on May 21, 2025, which led to my publishing articles about William P. Hobby based on exhibits at the airport and Illy coffee vending machines....
My Friend’s Stuffed Bird Rescue Yesterday (March 16, 2026), I published an article about a BLOB DYLAN tag in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on September 28, 2025. To be precise, I took two photographs of the BLOB DYLAN tag in question at...
I went to the Brooklyn, New York City neighborhood of Williamsburg with a friend on September 28, 2025. It was my first walk to Williamsburg since May 4 of the same year. On my previous Williamsburg excursion, which was to be fitted for...
I use a feed reader to curate my online reading and viewing sources. For this reason, I largely avoid the slop and spam which floods the internet’s myriad algorithmic feeds. But, now and then, I still come across an something which...
It was a snowy February 2026 here in my birthplace and home, Brooklyn, New York City. But while it was snowing outside, I was typing inside, publishing a good collection of new articles and short posts here on The New Leaf Journal...
I published Subscribing to category-specific RSS feeds in early 2023. As the title of the article suggests, I noted that many websites (including this one) offer author, section, or taxonomy feeds in addition to a main site feed, and...
Well-Done Intro I like steak, although I do not eat it often (in fact I cannot remember the last time I had steak). But I like steak, and all forms of beef, with a qualification: It must be well-done. I have discovered in life that some...
I commemorated Columbus Day in 2023 with a photo post of a pigeon perched atop a Christopher Columbus statute at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. On February 24, 2026, I took a walk in Brooklyn just a day after New York City finished receiving...
I was walking through a still-snow-covered Brooklyn Bridge Park on the afternoon of February 13, 2026, when I came across something that I had not expected to see: Geese in the snow. Above, you can see the geese with the Manhattan...
I published three snowman-themed articles since the end of December, with one covering an actual snowman and two covering a snowman kokeshi doll and snowman cups respectively. Subsequent to my snowman coverage at the end of 2025, New...
Shiroi Printer is a freeware horror Japanese visual novel developed by Asaki Yumemishi (published under the banner of Yumemi no Yamai) and published to Freem!, a Japanese platform for freeware games, on May 28, 2018. The vast majority of...
Dave Cowens’ 1980 Retirement and 1982 Comeback I subscribe to Bob Kuska’s From Way Downtown website in my feed reader. The site re-prints old NBA and basketball articles, usually with a brief introduction by Mr. Kuska. On February 15,...
Because my day job involves U.S. immigration law, I regularly stay on top of new precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “the Board”) in my feed reader. On February 13, 2026, I read a Board decision that had...
I read a January 27, 2026 article on Time Extension, a video game website focused primarily on retro games and emulation, titled Apparently, The PSP Counts As A Failure To Some People Now, with “PSP” referring to Sony’s erstwhile...