I'm WRITING in English; I'm writing for a WESTERN audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily LIFE are MOSTLY non-white.

Laughter is a WAY of really letting out all this pressure that you COULD face in your daily life in the suffering of your PEOPLE, and comedy is ALMOST like a medicine to your soul in a way.

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat MOSTLY PLANTS, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' SMALL town in upstate New YORK.

My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom SONG for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of DAILY LIFE in our city/country/world.

I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really CARRY around 'Be the LEAF' in my HEAD. That's not a character, but it's something from the SHOW that's really impacted my daily life.

My MONEY was STOLEN from me. I was EVENTUALLY stripped of the ability to make even the most basic DECISIONS... my daily life became unbearable.

Most PEOPLE LIKE to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us LIVE in a slightly conspiratorial RELATIONSHIP with our employer and perhaps with our MARRIAGE.

I KEEP kosher, so I have an element of consumption AWARENESS embedded into my daily life. One of the THINGS the practice does is make one more mindful of - and grateful for - what GOES into your BODY.

What I HOPE is that politics shouldn't be DOMINATED by the pro-Chinese elite; it should be related to EVERYONE's daily life.

Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it BETTER, to be more THOUGHTFUL of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of PEOPLE?

Daily LIFE is better when it involves interactions with real PEOPLE who have a personal INVESTMENT in their LABOUR, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my JOB' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in LOVE with the Internet from the minute I SAW it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, MOSTLY, have not been WITHOUT it as a part of my daily life SINCE.

In 2001, I moved from Philly to ATLANTA, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can IMAGINE the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily LIFE and CONVERSATION down South in a way it never does up NORTH.

I fell in LOVE with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially ADMIRE how well she writes about daily life, how she CAPTURES so much MEANING and consequence in the smallest details of a DAY.

I don't really THINK about doing something kind, I think there's just a WAY to CONDUCT your DAILY life with COMPASSION to other people.