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Welcome to the 163rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, N.A. Ferrell. Below, I have our six newest articles (one of our more varied collections), 21 links from around the web, links from our own archive, and brief news and notes from the week that was.

Speaking of the week that was...

Leaves from the week that was

I published six new articles since mailing the Newsletter 162.

Welcome to the 162nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

Today's newsletter falls on New York City's Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? You can learn about it in a link in our Leaves from the week that was section below. While I usually limit this humble newsletter to articles published from the previous Saturday to the Friday preceding the newsletter, I made an exception for New York City's patriotic holiday. Other than this exception, you will find your favorite (I hope) regularly scheduled newsletter sections below.

Leaves from the week that was

I published three new articles during the holiday week.

Welcome to the 161st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We have a solid week of publishing, so I look forward to sharing our new articles, links from around the web, and other news and notes to hold you over through Thanksgiving.

Leaves from the week that was

I published five new articles since mailing newsletter 160.

• "I Voted" Sticker Appears in Pocket
  N.A. Ferrell. November 11, 2023.

  I am going with the "magic" explanation.

• On Coach Jimbo Fisher's Buyout
  N.A. Ferrell. November 14, 2023.

  I could not pass on the opportunity to write about Texas A&M paying a man $76.8 million to not coach its football team.

• Hair Color in the Apothecary Diaries Anime
  N.A. Ferrell. November 15, 2023.

  The Apothecary Diaries is an excellent (thus far) currently-airing anime series. But despite its good start, I decided that the internet could use some hair color analysis.

• Hair Color in Raven of the Inner Palace
  N.A. Ferrell. November 15, 2023.

  Apothecary Diaries (see above) has a fictional setting based on ancient China. One of my favorite 2022 anime series was actually set in ancient China. It had its own interesting hair color situation, so I turned that into an article.

• October 25 Thanksgiving in Grenada
  N.A. Ferrell. November 17, 2023.

  Last year I covered Thanksgiving in the Philippines. This year we fly to Grenada. Grenada's Thanksgiving is distinct from Thanksgiving in the United States while commemorating an event that very much involved the United States.

Welcome to the 60th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. After a brief unplanned hiatus, we returned to our ordinary publishing pace last week. Below, I share our newest articles, links from around the web, and news and notes about The New Leaf Journal.

Leaves from the week that was

I published five new articles since mailing the previous newsletter.

• October 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
  N.A. Ferrell. November 5.

  No one said these months in review had to be published in the month of review.

• Planning and Angel Next Door Season 2
  N.A. Ferrell. November 5.

  The anticipated results of good article planning.

• Upgrading Pixel 3a XL from LineageOS 19 to 20
  N.A. Ferrell. November 6.

  As advertised.

• Carroll Gardens Halloween Snake Skeleton
  N.A. Ferrell. November 7.

  While it was not a real skeleton, it was protecting real flowers.

• Brooklyn Heights Halloween Scarecrow
  N.A. Ferrell. November 8.

  Are crows scared of ghosts?

Welcome to the 159th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

As always? I should say except for last week.

Two factors caused a lapse in New Leaf Journal publishing. Firstly, middling health commencing on October 24. Secondly, I had a decent amount of work for my law job to do while I was feeling sluggish. As a result, I did not publish any articles. Because I had no articles to share and I still had work to do last weekend, I let October 28 pass without a newsletter. While I have a few article drafts in the pipeline, I still have not published a new piece since October 21. Thus, today's newsletter will feature articles from our archive, links from around the web, our most-visited articles for each of the previous two newsletter weeks, and a look ahead to what is in store in November.

The Old Leaf Journal

Welcome to the 158th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal (the previous one had a Roman numeral title typo -- sad!), the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. I am a bit pressed for time this week, so this newsletter will only cover our most recent posts, links from around the web, and our most-read articles of the week. Let us get straight into the content.

Leaves from the week that was

I published two new articles.

• On Russia’s and China’s Self-Awareness
  N.A. Ferrell. October 14, 2023.

  Russia's and China's statements about restraint and justice ring just a bit hollow.

• Analyzing BIA Decision in Matter of Salama
  N.A. Ferrell. October 19, 2023.

  An in-depth study of an interesting 1966 U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision with my original legal analysis. I wrote it in a way that should be accessible to people who are not familiar with U.S. immigration law. Also see a short follow-up post over at The Emu Café Social.

Welcome to the 157th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This week was a bit short on content with just three new articles -- although all three were fairly time-intensive by my standards. You will find links to our three new pieces along with links from around the web and other news and notes below.

(No News leaf journal section this week because I have no news to report other than our new articles.)

Links from the week that was

Our three new articles...

Welcome to the 156th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I had a bit more non-New Leaf Journal work than expected last week, but I still managed to produce a respectable number of new articles. Below, you will find our usual weekly recap accompanied by links from around the web and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I was somewhat surprised to discover that I published five new articles since mailing the previous newsletter.

• September 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
  Catch up on the month that was in September.
• Hair Color in A Dream of Summer
  I followed the previous week's review of a visual novel titled A Dream of Summer with a review of hair color in A Dream of Summer.
• Dragonair Safari in Pokémon Yellow
  The story of how I spent a significant amount of time on a wholly unnecessary project in 2019.
• ActivityPub for WordPress and The NLJ
  I will have more on this in the News leaf journal section of this newsletter.
• Productivity to Secure Downtime
  One potential end of productivity properly conceived.

Today we end September with the 155th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. The final week of September brought with it three fairly long articles. Below, I will recap those articles along with our usual assortment of links around the web and other news and notes about The New Leaf Journal.

Leaves from the week that was

While I only published three articles since mailing newsletter 154, all three articles were long. Word count over article quantity?

• A Dream of Summer - Visual Novel Review (I entered the final section of al|together visual novel reviews with one of my longest reviews. A Dream of Summer has some of the best production values of the al|together visual novels, but as my review reveals, some aspects of the story left me wanting.)
• Ranking My Big Impression Video Games (I struggled with finding a title for this post. The title is bad. But the content is interesting, I think. I chose the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me over the last 30 years. Note that this is not the same as what I think are the best games. I invite readers to send their own selections. Also see the Emu Social version of the post.)
• Town Slogans In Pokémon's Kanto (Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American release of the original Pokémon games with a walking tour through the town slogans.)

Welcome to the 154th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While our short posts are on hiatus for the time being, I published six full articles since I last mailed you. You will find links to our new articles along with links from around the web and other news and notes below.

Leaves from the week that was

Six articles? Is this September 2020 instead of 2023? Let us see what is new...

• Broken Optical Audio Cable Door "Fix" (I think my sticky note fix is rather clever)
• On Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 (One can infer why Barry Bonds was walked at an unprecedented rate as he posted unprecedented statistics from 2002-2004... but why did he continue to be walked at a historic clip in 2006 and 2007 when he was no longer a record-wrecking video game character?)
• Grace Coolidge on Intentional Walks (On the baseball opinions of former First Lady Grace Coolidge)
• Race-Ball: 19th Century Sport Review (Exactly as advertised, but I think I could have drawn more traffic if I left the context off the headline)
• Thirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Part: Part 1 & Part 2 (Again as advertised -- I split it into two articles because I decided that a single article with eight thirsty goose photos would have been unnecessarily heavy)

Welcome to the 153rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. It was not a big publishing week at The New Leaf Journal, but I produced a few articles while also continuing to work on improving the site and its sister project, The Emu Café Social. Let us begin our week-in-review.

Leaves from the week that was

I technically published three new articles, but one was about our cache system serving some visitors a compressed page to download instead of the normal web page for 12 hours on Thursday. Technical issue update aside, my two full articles were fairly long.

• Middle school restroom smoking (Settle in for a story of a one-time incident in my middle school that resurfaced in an unexpected way when I was in high school)
• The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses hair dye (You can glean from the cumbersome title that we have a new update in our ongoing series on anime hair color)

Welcome to Newsletter Leaf Journal 152. The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I had a busy week with site administration -- although not all of it had to do with The New Leaf Journal (I will explain in our Notable Leaf Journal) section. But despite the side projects, I published several new articles and made a few adjustments to what I hope is your favorite perennially virid online writing magazine.

Leaves from the week that was

I published three new full articles.

• Two Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis (I did not realize before reading Midsummer Haze and A Midsummer Day's Resonance for reviews that the protagonists shared the save first name)
• Surviving Megidolaon Spam in Persona 3 (Revisiting past video game trauma and triumph)
• Local Avatars and Redirecting Gravatars (My adventures in starting a new WordPress site led me to discover a small way to reduce third-party requests)

Welcome to the 151st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. August is in the books, but I stepped up our publishing pace after a few slow weeks to bring the month to a proper conclusion. Below, I share our week's worth of posts, links from around the web, our new most-visited statistics, and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I published six new articles since mailing Newsletter 150. I suppose that is a decent enough rebound from a one article week (even conceding the month-in-review post only barely counts).

• Pumpkin Spice Makeup Removal Wipes: I am not an expert on makeup or makeup removal, but I could not resist the opportunity to opine on an interesting product seen at Marshalls.
• Midsummer Haze - Visual Novel Review: If you think I am exaggerating when I say that I had to re-do the same scene 43 times to advance in this visual novel so I could complete my review, you will find in my review that this is no exaggeration.
• Finding Manatsu no Kagerou: This is a companion article to my arduous Midsummer Haze review. Here, you will learn why actually being able to run Midsummer Haze involved a story in and of itself.
• The New Leaf Journal Twtxt Feed: Learn how we made The New Leaf Journal more friendly to a small number of niche hackers.
• August 2023 at The New Leaf Journal: Maybe I should defy expectations with one of these month-in-reviews.
• A Midsummer Day's Resonance - VN Review: My proverbial feature article of the week, notwithstanding that my misadventures in Midsummer Haze may be more entertaining for those who did not endure them.

Welcome to the 150th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This week's newsletter (nice round number) comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While this week was light on publishing (we have a stronger week ahead), I did make a few changes to The New Leaf Journal that may be of interest to some readers.

Leaves from the week that was

I published one full article and three short posts. Sparse, yes. But to be fair, my full article was long.

• Coolidge and Harrison in Bennington
  N.A. Ferrell. August 20, 2023.

  Calvin Coolidge described having seen then-President Benjamin Harrison give an address in Bennington, Vermont, when Coolidge was in college. Coolidge's description of the event was characteristically eloquent. In this article, I search for accounts of the festivities that Coolidge witnessed.

• The problem with remaking Twitter (This is a short post in my growing collection of articles against the tendency to clone major social media)

• New Leaf Journal (Maybe) Back on Bing (We're definitely back on Bing as of August 26, 2023, but results in terms of visitors vary)
• Remaster of Riviera: The Promised Land (Thoughts on a re-make of an interesting JRPG I played a few years ago)
• Return of our SEO Framework sitemap (Bing is being difficult, so I switched back to our prior sitemap to try to make things easier for it)

Welcome to the 149th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This week was light on new article publishing, but I have a decent selection of new pieces to share in addition to our usual links from around the web, links from our archives, and some interesting site news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

We published two full articles since mailing Newsletter 148.

• Game FAQs Guide For Game Boy Golf (1990)
  N.A. Ferrell. August 12, 2023.

  I was looking for information about Nintendo's 1990 Golf game for Game Boy (why not?). It was like 2004 all over again. The only hope was Game FAQs.

• On the Death of Robbie Robertson
  Victor V. Gurbo. August 13, 2023.

  Victor V. Gurbo returns with a post on the life and legacy of the late Robbie Robertson.

Welcome to the 148th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We had a slow week in terms of article publishing, but that will not slow down this newsletter.

Leaves from the week that was

I published one new article since mailing newsletter 147.

• Trash pick-up vehicle on Brooklyn Bridge
  N.A. Ferrell. August 10, 2023.

  A 2019 photo of a small New York City DOT truck on the Brooklyn Bridge's then-narrower pedestrian walkway.

Welcome to the 147th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. After a slow two weeks of publishing, we returned to a normal publishing schedule last week. Below, we review our most recent posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

We published five new articles since mailing Newsletter 146.

• Basquiat Forgeries Made With Alarming Ease
  N.A. Ferrell. July 29, 2023.

  Wherein I ponder the implications of how easy it was for frauders to create convincing Basquiat forgeries.

• Anime Case Against Japan's Population Loss
  N.A. Ferrell. July 30, 2023.

  Our Justin and Justina dialogue duo returns. Justin questioned reports of Japan's population decline with his own unique logic.

• July 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
  N.A. Ferrell. July 31, 2023.

  Catch up with all of our July articles and see the most popular posts of July and of the May-July three-month period.

• The Last Nintendo Wii Games
  N.A. Ferrell. August 1, 2023.

  I read that the last Nintendo Wii game (note the Wii itself was released in 2007) was Just Dance 2020. Is this so? I investigated.

• "I could get like the keys and come back"
  N.A. Ferrell. August 4, 2023.

  Our overheard on the street series returns!

Welcome to the 146th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official writing magazine of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While it was not a busy week at The New Leaf Journal, I easily surpassed our publishing output of no articles last week. Thus, you can expect a more traditional newsletter below with our most recent articles, links from around the web, and some surprising news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I published two regular articles and three leaflets/leaf buds in the previous week. First, I present the articles.

• Hallmarks of Former Service Members
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. July 23, 2023.

  A story from my college days about how the professor inferred that one student in his class was a veteran.

• DuckDuckGo in the Bing Pond
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. July 28, 2023.

  A new essay on the tangled relationship of DuckDuckGo and Bing. Note as usual that you should not use either search solution to find The New Leaf Journal since its being de-indexed by Bing means it is also invisible to DuckDuckGo.

Welcome to the 145th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

This will be an unusual newsletter since I did not actually publish any articles this week. I was busy with work and plagued by sinus issues. I do have an article in the pipeline, but I have not gotten around to publishing it yet. (Next week will likely be on the quiet side as well, albeit busy compared to a week of no publishing.) But we need not let the lack of publishing at The New Leaf Journal hinder its newsletter cousin...

The Old Leaf Journal

While I did not publish new articles, we can dig into the archive for some good reading. Maybe this was just a chance to give our older content a chance to shine. Let us go with nine classic (or so I tell myself) New Leaf Journal pieces.

Welcome to the 144th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal, with content too amazing for Bing and DuckDuckGo. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I published a decent number of regular articles this week (not too many short posts, however), and we will review those below in conjunction with links from around the web and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I published five normal articles.

• Installing Non-Listed Programs in PlayOnLinux: A step-by-step guide to running Windows programs with the help of PlayOnLinux (the guide is probably applicable to PlayOnMac as well)
• The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation: I dive into an unexpectedly contentious debate about the animation style employed in episode 1 of a summer 2023 anime series.
• Barbie & Oppenheimer without context: I only learned this was a meme after I began working on the article.
• RSS for keeping up with MikroTik updates: Keeping my router's operating system up to date with the help of an RSS feed.
• Japanese Language Env in Steam (Linux): I follow up last year's guide on configuring Japanese language environments in PlayOnLinux, Lutris, and Bottles with a guide to doing the same in Steam.

Welcome to the 143rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We had a warm week to begin July here in New York City. But weather aside, I published several new articles. You will find links to and descriptions of our new article along with our usual assortment of links from around the web and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I published four regular articles since mailing Newsletter 142.

• Most-Visited NLJ Articles of 1H 2023
  N.A. Ferrell. July 1, 2023.

  Many of the featured pieces on our 24 most-visited articles of the first half of 2023 will comes as little surprise to newsletter readers. But beyond the top 10, you will find a few articles which have not been mainstays in our weekly most-visited article rankings.

• Basil Hall on Benjamin Franklin's grave
  N.A. Ferrell. July 3, 2023.

  An 1829 account of a British explorer visiting the grave of Benjamin Franklin, with my own commentary, notes, and up-to-date information about the site.

• The Eagle, the National Seal, and turkeys
  N.A. Ferrell. July 4, 2023.

  We begin with a children's bedtime story for July 4 and conclude with Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on eagles and turkeys.

• Mafia Social Media Over-Sharing
  N.A. Ferrell. July 7, 2023.

  Instead of spoiling this article, which is accurately described by my headline, I will note that I am pleased with what I put together.

Welcome to the edition 142 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We welcome July with today's newsletter, and you can expect some new leaf fireworks (or at least links to some of our 4th of July posts) to go with the usual assortment of links from the week that was, links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Leaves from the week that was

I only published three full articles since mailing newsletter 141, with one being our June review. In my defense, however, the combined word count of these articles was above average.

• Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?
  N.A. Ferrell. June 26, 2023.

  I examined an interesting question on the 20th anniversary of the 2003 NBA Draft. The Detroit Pistons lucked into the second overall pick thanks to a trade it had made in August 1997. The Pistons were unusual for being a good team, having won 50 games and made the Eastern Conference Finals the year before, picking at the top of the draft. The Pistons took Darko Milicic with the second pick ahead of three future hall of fame players (Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade). Mr. Milicic was traded by the Pistons in his third season after barely seeing the court. Conventional wisdom says that the Pistons should have drafted Mr. Anthony or Mr. Bosh with the second pick (Mr. Wade proved to be the best of the next three picks, but there is no evidence he was on the Pistons’ radar as their number two pick). I argue that conventional wisdom understates one complicating factor – the Pistons won the NBA Championship in 2003-04 after drafting Mr. Milicic over Mr. Anthony.

• 1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft
  N.A. Ferrell. June 27, 2023.

  I published this as a companion article to the Pistons-Anthony piece (it stands on its own, however). Here, I explain how exactly a very poorly conceived throw-away trade in 1997 would cost the Memphis Grizzlies (they were the Vancouver Grizzlies in `97) six years later the second overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

• June 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
  N.A. Ferrell. June 30, 2023.

  No surprises...

Welcome to the 141st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Last week was a bit slow in terms of New Leaf Journal developments, but I still have a full slate of topics to share for this newsletter.

Table of contents

• Leaves from the week that was
• Leaves from around the web
• The Old Leaf Journal
• Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
• News leaf journal
• Notable leaf journal
• Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 140th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. Today’s edition comes a bit late because I was tired last night (I am definitely not writing this on Saturday afternoon). But it will be a full newsletter all the same, packed to the brim with the sort of content one would expect to find in a Newsletter Leaf Journal composed by New Leaf Journal editor Nicholas A. Ferrell on his waterproof keyboard.

Table of contents

• Leaves from the week that was
• Leaves from around the web
• The Old Leaf Journal
• Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
• News leaf journal
• Notable leaf journal
• Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 139th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While I did not publish many articles in the last week, one of the articles that I did publish is quite long. Moreover, this week saw the return of The New Leaf Journal Guestbook, albeit in a new form. Without further ado, let us cover the latest news, notes, and articles from around the web.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 138th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

While we still technically have a couple of weeks of spring here in New York City, something about June feels like the start of summer. But regardless of the season, real or perceived, we have new leaves from the week that was, links from around the web, and your usual assortment of New Leaf Journal news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 137th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

We published some interesting articles and short posts during the last week. We also added a new section to The New Leaf Journal. We will recap all of that below along with interesting links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of contents

• Leaves from the week that was
• Leaves from around the web
• The Old Leaf Journal
• Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
• News leaf journal
• Notable leaf journal
• Taking leaf

Welcome to the 136th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I published a good number of new articles last week. Below, I share links to our newest posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 135th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

Our Mother’s Day-Eve newsletter brings links to our newest posts, some New Leaf Journal news, and your assortment of links from around the web.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 134th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

I hoped to welcome May with style, but I have been a bit busy this week with work-work and behind-the-scenes New Leaf Journal work. But I do have some interesting articles, links from around the web, and news and notes to share in this week’s edition of your favorite (I hope…) weekly newsletter.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

April 27 marked the third birthday of The New Leaf Journal. I made sure that we had plenty of new articles for our birthday week. Below, you will find links to our newest articles along with twelve links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the birthday week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Birthday Leaf Journal
4. Most turned leaves of the birthday week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 132nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This past week was a bit slow at The New Leaf Journal on account of my having to do my taxes, finishing a couple of work assignments, and having problems with my right wrist. Nevertheless, I did publish a few new articles, and this humble newsletter will come with your usual assortment of links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. New leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 131st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. In addition to our usual assortment of links from the week that was at the NLJ and links from around the web, I will introduce a new addition to the site, not previously discussed on The New Leaf Journal, in our News Leaf Journal section.

Table of contents

1. New leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 130th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.

We had a relatively normal week at The New Leaf Journal with a mix of regular articles and short posts. Below, you will find our recap of the week that was at The New Leaf Journal along with links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 129th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We recently had our Saturday newsletters fall on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve just a few months ago. Today we land on April Fools. While I published a few articles about olden April Fools pranks in 2021 and 2022, I am not much of an April Fools person myself. Thus, you can enjoy your regular newsletter content without fearing a prank, but I will have some April Fools-related links for your weekend reading.

Table of contents

• Leaves from the week that was
• Leaves from around the web
• The Old Leaf Journal
• Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
• News leaf journal
• Notable leaf journal
• Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 128th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Today’s newsletter features links to our latest articles, links from around the web, and an interesting New Leaf Journal historical note about the moon that always waxes (in our rankings, at least).

Without further ado, let’s get to the content.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 127th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Our final winter (for northern hemisphere readers) newsletter does not cover our busiest week, but we do have some long-form content to share with you along with interesting links from around the web and our usual assortment of news and notes. Without further ado, let’s start the newsletter.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 126th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I did not have much New Leaf Journal content to share last week. While this week was not busy, we have a bit more to offer in the form of New Leaf Journal links to go with our links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of contents

• Leaves from the week that was
• Leaves from around the web
• The Old Leaf Journal
• Most-turned leaves of the week
• News leaf journal
• Notable leaf journal
• Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 125th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Today’s newsletter will be unique in that there is very little New Leaf Journal news. The only full “article” I published last week was our February review – but I did publish a few short posts. I also drafted a few articles, but with work I did not have time to sit down and publish them. This means two things. A busy week to come and more extra newsletter content this week since I do not have much to share in the form of links to new things published at The New Leaf Journal. (Note: I am skipping the “News leaf journal” section this week because I did not make any changes to the site.)

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. Notable leaf journal
6. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 124th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I am running a bit behind schedule this week, so let us jump straight into our regularly scheduled newsletter (we will skip the Notable Leaf Journal section this week)/

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 123rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal. This week’s edition is a little bit different from previous weeks in that I am writing it during the day on Friday instead of rushing to finish it on Saturday. But aside from that, you will find our usual assortment of links to our newest posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 122nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. This week’s newsletter may be a return to normalcy after I used last week’s edition to repeatedly remind readers that my colleague and I, Victor V. Gurbo, rescued a pigeon. By a “return to normalcy” I mean that there will not be nearly as many reminders of our great feat of heroism. There will, however, be recaps of our newest articles, links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 121st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the editor of said perennially virid online writing magazine, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Below, I cover our newest articles, links from around the web, site news, and other notes. However, unlike most newsletters, this newsletter has a distinct theme. Our featured article from the week chronicled The New Leaf Journal's real-life pigeon rescue. This newsletter will ensure that you will spend time thinking about our great act of heroism.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 120th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. At the moment, as of January 28, 2023, The New Leaf Journal is being blacklisted from Bing’s index, but the Newsletter Leaf Journal is not. Does that make the newsletter the official New Leaf Journal for Bing, DuckDuckGo, and the many other Bing front-ends? Perhaps so. But that matters not. Below, you will find our usual assortment of New Leaf Journal article recaps, links from around the web, and other assorted news and notes.

Table of Contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 119th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. The last week at The New Leaf Journal was an eventful one, but most of the events were invisible to you, the reader, and to anyone searching for The New Leaf Journal on Bing or a search front-end for Bing (more on that in News Leaf Journal). But before the behind the scenes stuff, we must first cover our newest articles and interesting content from around the web.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 118th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. The second week of 2023 featured a number of new articles and short-form posts. You will find those in today’s newsletter along with links from around the web and other news and notes.

Table of Contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 117th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. Our first newsletter of 2023 comes to you, like all of our newsletters from 2020, 2021, and 2022, from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I have some news and changes to introduce in this newsletter, but other things – such as our weekly article recaps, links from around the web, look a into our archive, and general news and notes will remain the same. Without further ado, let us begin the first newsletter of 2023.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 116th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, and our last newsletter of 2023 (happy New Year’s Eve/New Years to all of our readers). For those who may be new or those who have forgotten, The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter, like our previous 115 newsletters, comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Today’s newsletter features our usual assortment of New Leaf Journal links and stats, 12 articles from around the web (we have two bonuses), and other news, notes, and recommendations. It is a bit longer than usual, so without further ado, let’s get to the content.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the final newsletter week of 2022
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was

Welcome to the 115th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of Nicholas A. Ferrell, editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal.

I begin our penultimate newsletter of 2022 by wishing all of our readers a merry Christmas Eve and Christmas (I needn’t send New Years wishes yet since I will be mailing a newsletter on New Years Eve). This special holiday newsletter promises to be one of the most packed editions of The Newsletter Leaf Journal to date. We have eight new full articles, three leaflets, your usual assortment of links from around the web, and other news and notes.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

Welcome to the 114th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Today’s issue comes packed with links to our newest content, links from around the web, and other news and notes from The New Leaf Journal.

Table of contents

1. Leaves from the week that was
2. Leaves from around the web
3. The Old Leaf Journal
4. Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
5. News leaf journal
6. Notable leaf journal
7. Taking leaf

1. Leaves from the week that was