A super-category for personal anecdotes and stories from New Leaf Journal authors and writers.
I wrote a haiku about having seen a blue jay and black squirrel from a window in Brooklyn in the early 2000s on a Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator and then posted the screen capture. (Why not?)
Back in 2005, I overheard a gentleman waiting in line at Cobble Hill Cinema tell his date that he was “a little maxed out on existentialism.” The ineffable haughtiness of his declaration stayed with me.
A cardinal sighting in Brooklyn Bridge Park reminded me of a joint blue jay-black squirrel sighting from long ago.
On seeing a 2020 Blue Angeles-Thunderbirds joint-military flyover of New York City.
I share the harrowing story of how I bought a container of Chobani Flips yogurt only to discover when I got home that someone had stole the crunchy topping half and nefariously covered up his or her handiwork.