A sense of place.  Community.  Roots.  Some of us spend a lifetime trying to figure out where we’re from, who we are, where we belong.  Oliver Wendell Holmes — the poet and physician whose son became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice — once wrote, “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”  In this encore essay we hear from Ria Mirchandani about her fruitful search for a sense of home as she forges her path in life.

Ria Mirchandani graduated from Brown University in 2015.  She was raised in Mumbai, India and reports having come of age in Providence.    

Frederic Reamer, PhD, brings sophistication to The Public's Radio as the producer of the compelling series This I Believe – New England, modeled on the national This I Believe project.Reamer's involvement...