I'm the author of "This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving Where You Live" (Viking: June 2016), a book about how anyone can make themselves feel happier, more connected, and more at home in their hometown. Before this, I spent more than a decade as a freelance journalist, writing about everything from dramatic rescues to personal finance to how to get your baby to (finally!) go to sleep for the likes of Reader's Digest, O: The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, Parents, and CityLab. I'm a lover of BBC crime dramas, travel, parades, bookstores, libraries, and sweets, and I have an extremely nice husband who's willing to indulge me on almost all of those passions. Parades he could skip, but my two daughters love them. We all currently live in Blacksburg, Virginia. Spoiler alert: We're pretty darn happy here.