A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads. In this edition we'll talk about Thanksgiving and leftover management (nailed it!), dish on early retirement life, I'll grouse about how illness is messing with my workouts and sleep, and in reading I'll tell you about the DNF that I gave a second chance to with astounding results.
Monday, December 1, 2025
Weekly Round Up: Thanksgiving and A Second Chance
Friday, November 28, 2025
Provincial Flags I Have Known: A Rundown and Ranking
This post is the second installment on a topic that I never imagined that I would ever blog about: state flags. Today we're going to cross the border and take a look at the provincial flags.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Weekly Round Up: A Walk in the Park
Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From Dial M for Murder to The Man Who Knew Too Much
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Eight is Great: The Eighth Annual Weekly Eats Roundup
Once upon a time in November eight years ago, a recipe blogger decided to start writing a weekly post about what she was eating, her workouts, what she was watching on TV, and what she was reading. After a year, the blogger decided to write an annual round up post with the best of the year, which became known as "Birchwood New Year".
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Weekly Round Up: Since We Last Talked
A semi-weekly round up: early retirement life, eats, workouts, watches, and reads.
Well friends, since we last talked, everything came to pass. My last day of work was October 31st, and the only snag to my plan to walk my laptop down to FedEx at 3:00 is that my boss scheduled our exit interview for 3:30. So I walked it down at 3:50!
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From The Wrong Man to The Birds
Hey friends, we're back with the second installment of The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch. Last time we talked about his final five movies, which are not well known. Today we're doing the opposite and talking about the next-to-last five movies, which is a list packed with Greatest Hits.





