I’m a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Fast Company, The Guardian, Slate, Quartz, CityLab, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, Medium, Livability, and many other publications.

I also wrote a book, This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, that explains the concept of place attachment and helps people fall in love with where they live. Want a short version? Try the course.

Spoiler: I still live, happily, in my adopted hometown of Blacksburg, so I guess those Love Where You Live experiments worked. I am, however, regularly lured away to speak about place attachment in cities and small towns around the country.