There is a certain residence in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, right on the border with Carroll Gardens, which regularly displays large inflatable holiday and seasonal decorations. As far as holidays go, we have covered in these pages its offerings for Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Independence Day, Easter and St....

A friend of mine the other day mentioned something about the chickenpox vaccine and shingles. That led me down memory lane. The chickenpox vaccine was approved for use in the United States in 1995. That is how kids these days are given immunity. Not today, nurse! Modified from public domain image uploaded by Oksmith...

On January 12, 2024, I published an article about then-ongoing renovations at the Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. You can read my original report for the project details. For our instant purposes, it suffices to say that the library – one of the beautiful original Carnegie libraries – had been...

I recently published an article about rescuing a ladybug and katydid in my home nine days apart in September 2026. That was not my first foray in publishing bug rescue stories. I previously shared my heroic rescue of an ailanthus webworm moth from my building’s lobby and a ladybug from my TV. While I did not share...

It is now October, but as the headline indicates, this is my June 2026 review. Suffice it to say, I have fallen a bit behind on my month-end review posts. But I will fully catch up by the end of this month (being October 2026) such that things will be back in order by the time my October review is due. Without...

The second season of the anime adaptation of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten aired for 12 episodes from April 3, 2026, through June 19 of the same. The first season had aired for 12 episodes three years prior in 2023. The anime adapts an ongoing Japanese light novel series of the same name. I had reviewed the...

On September 16, 2021, I published an article titled Rescuing a Ladybug On My Television. As the title suggested, I shared my heroic animal rescue story for the moral betterment of my readers. Unfortunately, I was unable to photograph the ladybug because I selflessly focused on its safety before providing visual...

I just published an article titled Trackback Spam on Iroha Isshiki Hair Color Study. In that article, I covered a rather impious spam backlink to one of my family friendly Japanese 2D person hair color research articles. While that article never, to the best of my knowledge, attracted visitors looking for impious...

There are many reasons I do not enable comments on articles here at The New Leaf Journal. Among those reasons is spam. I have comments enabled on our Guestbook page and that page alone receives hundreds of spam comments every week. Fortunately, the very effective free and open source Antispam Bee plugin sends the...

On October 3, 2025, I published a local Brooklyn news report titled Christmas Countdown Clock in September. The article began: I was walking up Degraw Street on the afternoon of September 29, 2025, when I happened across an unexpected seasonal decoration: An inflatable snowman with a Christmas countdown clock. As...

Thinking About Myself; Yourself A 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself came up in one of my recent email exchanges. The anime was an adaptation of, or companion to, a PlayStation 2 visual novel of the same name, which was released exclusively in Japan in 2007. The anime, which was produced by studio Doga Kobo, made it...

I came across an interesting passage in THEM Anime’s review of a 2023 anime series titled The Dreaming Boy is a Realist. The line and the review were authored by Allen Moody, who I quoted once previously in a New Leaf Journal article on review systems. I emboldened the key point of the quote: Kei sits behind Wataru...