Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

My favorite shoes are Blundstones, they were made in Tasmania in Australia but are now made in Vietnam. They are slip on boots, with tags you use to pull them on.

I’ve worn them for over 10 years & have worn them all over the world. I have several pairs in many different colors.

I’m surprised I didn’t wear them when I got married! Anyway, I have lived in rainy cities for over 20 years so they are like “slippers” for crappy weather.

My favorite pair was last year’s Christmas present, a pair of brown boots. I’d recommend them to anyone who lives in a rainy or snowy city.

What’s your favorite candy?

I’m a huge fan of TimTams from Australia. They’re not very sweet & taste great while being a good snack.

I ate them while we drove across Australia nearly a decade ago.

I think my other favorite candy is the quintessential  Norwegian candy Laban. They’re colorful & tasty & gummy.

Write about your first computer.

Our first computer was an Ericsson/IBM model that had a yellow & black screen on it. I remember fondly playing flight simulator on it. The graphics were seriously old school but were “modern” for the time. It was the mid-eighties & Apple & IBM where there was a war over customers.

We even had a dot matrix printer that we thought was very “cool.” You had to tear off the dots if you wrote something on it. The paper jams were epic!

Now, everything is about how light it is & how fast. It was about that too in the 1980’s but the machines were soo clunky & heavy. Oh how I miss that dot matrix printer. Not.