Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.

On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.