The Birchwood Pie Project
Trying to figure out what to eat and everything else in life.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Let's Go Places: New Orleans, Louisiana
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: Rich and Strange to The 39 Steps
Monday, January 26, 2026
Weekly Roundup: Belly Deep
A weekly round up: a weather report, eats, workouts, watches, and reads. Greetings from the other side of my trip to New Orleans! I'll get the bloggy blog caught up on that soon, and in the meantime here is all the everyday stuff that we need to chat about.
We are in the midst of Snowmaggedon, and Doggo is here for it. When we came home from our lunchtime walk, she had the choice of walking up the plowed driveway or walking in belly deep snow in the yard, and she made her choice.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
2025: The Year in Travel Hacking/Bank Bonuses
Last year I wrote about my baby steps into the world of travel hacking and bank bonuses, and a few months later I reported on my first big travel hacking coup. Now that I've been at this game a little bit longer, let's see how the credit card/bank bonus world is going.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From Secret Agent to Jamaica Inn
Welcome back to the Great Alfred Hitchcock rewatch! Last time we watched Hitchcock's first American movies, and now we're going back to England to see what he was up to that made Hollywood come a knockin'.
Monday, January 12, 2026
Weekly Round Up: In the Wild
Friday, January 9, 2026
Steal a Post: 2025 in Chapters
For the second year in a row, this post is a blatant steal of Stephany's Best of 2025, A Month-by-Month Recap.
Credit where credit is due:
- The chapters concept is c/o Elisabeth's 2024 "write a book with me" project
- Kyria carried the chapters concept forward to 2025 in the "Looking Forward, Looking Back" series
- Stephany's 2024 post is here
- My 2024 thievery is here



