"This is Where You Belong" by Melody Warnick

"This is Where You Belong--Finding Home Wherever You Are" covers Melody Warnick's own experience of moving about in the United States, never staying anywhere longer than a couple of years, traveling from California to Utah to Iowa to Texas--until she got to Blacksburg, Va.There, Warnick has found peace and stability--not because Blacksburg is a model city or one of those places that always turns up among the top 10 small towns to live in or any of the lists that litter the internet--but because Warnick decided to make an effort to enjoy the place she was at.That effort is accompanied by interviews, facts and formulas to urge others to understand what she's learned--that the place isn't as important as the person.Chapters such as "Buy Local," "Say Hi to your Neighbors" and "Volunteer" steer one on ways to get out and commit to the place they live.