UNEXPECTED

An Unexpected Community

How Reddit Became my Inspiration to Start Blogging (and keep with it)

Literally one of our first days in Seattle. The city was intimidating but different, different was…good. This photo feels appropriate as I feel my theme lately has been ‘The Journey Here’, to where I am now in life. (Photo Credit: Author, 2021, Seattle, WA)

A perhaps surprising source of community has been certain subs on Reddit. That part alone is not so shocking. I think the unexpected part is which communities.

In large part, I have found a group of kindred spirits in the two-sentence…