By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.