About
Hello! I’m Sara Scott. I’m a solo traveler, food lover, and a happily single, childfree woman who believes that wonder exists all around us, waiting to be found.
Here on Wonder & Sundry, I share what I’ve learned along the way about what makes a life filled with wonder. To me, that’s through exploring new places with travel, new flavors through cooking, and new perspectives through daily practices that sustain us.
Wonder is heady stuff, but here we also deal with the practical so you will feel empowered to put these ideas into action.
Ready? Let’s go find some wonder!
The Wonder & Sundry Story
In early 2020, I was so excited. I bought a domain name, and I’d put together a plan for a kickass travel blog that would combine my love of telling friends all about my travels with the practical information that solo female travelers like myself needed to have wonderful, safe, and healthy travels. I’d started writing early drafts of posts and sketching how the site would look. This would be so awesome!
And then . . .
And then, well, you know what happened then. Our world shrank. Starting a travel blog in the middle of a global pandemic didn’t sound like the best use of anyone’s time.
So, I shelved it.
I searched for wonder where I could find it
During those early months, I found myself drawing strength and joy from small daily rituals like spying little wonders on my daily dog walks around the neighborhood.
I also cooked a lot more, which reminded me of that time when I’d lost my job in the Great Recession. I’d had time to cook then (and frankly not enough money to eat out in Boston all the time), and I learned to love making myself multi-course meals. Cooking filled my time and my belly, and I became quite the home cook.
Beyond my little daily wonder walks and work breaks spent getting dinner started, I also found myself relying a lot more on what I called my Morning Rituals, a daily practice of writing, reading, dreaming, and just allowing myself to be.
I still longed for travel, but I realized that finding wonder didn’t necessarily need a grand adventure if I knew how to do it.
What if I wrote about wonder and sundry?
My demanding job took a lot of time that year, and I found myself with a ton of vacation time at the end of 2020. One chilly morning on that vacation, I woke up, and, as I was doing my daily writing practice over coffee, I wrote, “wonder and sundry.”
That, Dear Reader, was it. I would still write about travel (though less in those early days), but I would also write about cooking and those daily rituals. About ways to wring all the wonder out of our lives. Not just to “treat ourselves,” but to respect and love ourselves enough to revel in our own company.
And now you're here!
And the rest? Well, that’s all here in Wonder & Sundry, and a new way of living. I left that job and traveled solo for three months straight, and I’m still wandering in wonder.
I’m so glad you’re here. Let’s go find some wonder!
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