Be the Blogger You Want to Be (Or Read)

Introducing Our Sixth Birthday Project Conclusion I celebrated The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday on April 27, 2026, by starting a sixth birthday project wherein I would share on a schedule six articles featuring my blogging wisdom in the month of May. I have already published five “wisdom” articles, so today’s essay will bring our sixth birthday project to a close. Our concluding article’s theme is being the blogger or writer you want to be (or read). I took this photograph on March 16, 2023, the same day I visited the Noguchi Museum. These squiggly statutes are in a park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but I do not recall the name of the park. Prefatory Note I am sharing my blogging “wisdom” (such as it is) that I have derived from running The New Leaf Journal. As I have noted elsewhere, The New Leaf Journal is a non-commercial project. Thus, my wisdom that bloggers and writers should run websites that they would want to visit and to publish articles, blog posts, and media that they…