A personal journal and blog theme: long-form entries on living well, travel, food and the quiet business of paying attention.https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/enhttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/green-living/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/green-living/A year of tracking what we actually threw away, and the four changes that accounted for nearly all of it.Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifestyleLifestyleTips & TricksBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/traveling-dreams/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/traveling-dreams/Three weeks in Patagonia on a budget that would embarrass a travel magazine, and everything I got wrong before I left.Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTTravelsTravelsAdventureTips & TricksBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wellness-wonders/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wellness-wonders/I went looking for what holistic medicine actually means in practice, spoke to three practitioners and one very patient physician, and came back with a more complicated answer than I wanted.Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTHealthHealthLifestyleBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/10-simple-lifestyle-changes/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/10-simple-lifestyle-changes/None of these cost money, none of them took more than a week to stick, and together they did more for me than the two years I spent buying equipment.Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifestyleLifestyleHealthTips & TricksBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/elevate-your-beauty-routine/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/elevate-your-beauty-routine/I asked four people who do this for a living what they would keep if they could only keep three products. Nobody said anything I expected.Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTFashionBeautyFashionTips & TricksMarguerite Ellishttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wildlife-wonders/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wildlife-wonders/Six days, two guides, one broken camera, and a long argument with myself about whether any of this is good for the animals.Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTAdventureAdventureTravelsBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/physical-and-mental-harmony/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/physical-and-mental-harmony/What four years of therapy, one injury and a very boring spreadsheet taught me about the point where looking after your body and looking after your head stop being separate projects.Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTHealthHealthLifestylePersonal BlogBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wardrobe-essentials/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/wardrobe-essentials/I logged every item I wore for six months. Eleven things accounted for more than half of it, and almost none of them were the ones I would have guessed.Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTFashionFashionLifestyleTips & TricksMarguerite Ellishttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/untouched-beauty-of-california/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/untouched-beauty-of-california/Nine days on the north coast, well away from the postcard version, in a car that smelled of wet dog by the second afternoon.Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTTravelsTravelsAdventureMarguerite Ellishttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/modern-spa-experience/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/modern-spa-experience/A birthday voucher sent me somewhere I would never have booked, and I came back with a genuinely mixed review and one treatment I would pay for again.Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTHealthHealthBeautyLifestyleBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/the-slow-sunday-rule/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/the-slow-sunday-rule/Two years ago we made one rule about one day, and it has quietly rearranged the other six.Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifestyleLifestylePersonal BlogBrooklyn Simmonshttps://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/kitchen-notebook/https://diary-astro-preview.tncflow.com/blog/kitchen-notebook/Three years of writing down every dinner, and the surprisingly short list of things we actually cook.Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifestyleLifestyleTips & TricksPersonal BlogMarguerite Ellis