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 pursue basketball coaching as a profession, much less coached a game myself. The...

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 society. I would broadly break his argument into two parts while otherwise...

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 incisive essay by Maggie Appleton titled The Expanding Dark Forest of Generative AI....

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 dog owners. I did not need to open the article to know what it is about, for I...

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, for my spring theme will largely be a continuation of our Winter Season 2026...

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 of his other recent writing that it would touch on the effect of AI usage on...

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 Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points on March 2, 1962 (see box score and highlights). Mr....

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, Mr. Caffey spent his first two seasons and change with the Chicago Bulls, winning...

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 After Offering to Help Israel Against Iran. I quote a tweet from General Muhoozi...

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 options that use Google’s or Bing’s index). It is useful for finding small,...

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 took this photo in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, on the afternoon of March 2, 2026....

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 and across the street (albeit a street carved down the middle by a highway) from...