Estimated reading time: 5 minute(s) Two years ago to the day, I published Welcome to The Emu Café. In addition to introducing a new New Leaf Journal category, I endeavored to set an aesthetic tone for our humble online magazine. There is no better way to mark the two-year anniversary…

Estimated reading time: 11 minute(s) I have noted on several occasions in The New Leaf Journal that my favorite movie is Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 three-act piece on feelings and distance, 5 Centimeters Per Second. In this post, I will cover in detail one of the finest scenes of the first…

Snow falls outside my window in New York City as I write. Although winter does not technically begin until next week, as I noted in a fond farewell to autumn two days ago, winter seems to not be interested in the calendar. While many may be tempted to stay indoors…

The last few days have been busy, but that is of course no excuse for not keeping to our content publishing schedule here at The New Leaf Journal. Last month, I published an expose on the latest autumnal trends in dresses — if by “latest” we mean “October 1850,” of…

(Note: This article was originally published in The New Leaf Journal, a growing online magazine that features creative writing content, essays, and musings. If you like what you see, come visit our full site) A Video Game Snafu or Fail That May or May Not Have Occurred The other day, my friend told me about an in-progress video game snafu that he could…

Before we launched The New Leaf Journal, I spent time drafting articles for when the site would finally go live. The very first article that I drafted, on August 9, 2018, was about a scene from one of my all-time favorite video games, Persona 4. Specifically, it was about a…

(This article is republished from The New Leaf Journal — a new online magazine dedicated to posting creative writing content and musings from our editors and writers. You will find many articles about society and culture, music, arts and literature, history, and current affairs. …

(This article is republished from The New Leaf Journal — a new online magazine dedicated to posting creative writing content and musings from our editors and writers. You will find many articles about society and culture, music, arts and literature, history, and current affairs. …