WORLD
Stories about the places we go, the cultures we encounter, and the world we share.
Wonderment
Longer reads that stay with an idea, a memory or a human question for a bit longer.
The Things I Wish I Could Put in Their Backpacks
Years ago, I went looking for fireflies along a river in Thailand and found absolutely none. Then one ordinary morning, a song brought the whole...
Karen The Wallaby Lady
I love it when you discover your friends have friends you had absolutely no reason to expect. Not just “oh they’re nice” friends. I mean...
The Sink in Skiathos
Before I ever went to Skiathos, I knew about a bathroom — two sinks overlooking the Aegean that would somehow become part of my family’s...
The Tea I Never Drank
I travelled to the Cameron Highlands expecting tea plantations and the perfect cup. The tea rooms were closed. What happened instead became one of the...
Small Wonders
Short observations from ordinary life - the moments, details and thought that are easy to straight past.
The Fireflies That Weren’t There
This morning I was driving the girls to their grandparents' house. They go there one day a week while I catch up on work, look...
Ask Me Out Abroad
I've had some genuinely terrible dates in my life. Men who forgot to mention the girlfriend. The baby. The girlfriend with the baby. I've kissed...
All About World
All About World
World is where Wonderment looks beyond home.
These stories are about places, travel, culture and the experience of encountering somewhere different — from landscapes and cities to small details that stay with us long after a journey is over.
Some pieces are travel memories. Others begin with an unusual place, tradition, building, object or encounter and follow the curiosity wherever it leads.
You’ll find longer Wonderment stories alongside shorter Small Wonders, all connected by the same idea: that travelling through the world becomes more interesting when we pay attention to more than the obvious sights.
World is less about ticking places off a list and more about noticing what a place reveals — about itself, about the people who live there and sometimes about us.