If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?

I’d give that kind of money to teachers & nurses. Here in Norway nurses are in short supply & no one wants to become a teacher anymore.

By giving them proper money to do their jobs. Nurses are critical to our health & teachers are critical to the next generation.

By giving nursing students some cash as an incentive I think our society would do much better. Teachers are influencers of generations, by teaching essential living skills to future generations.

If you think about it teachers are the original influencers. I can recall some teachers that told me to embrace my writing. Hence, it wasn’t a short TikTok video but by conversation I learned that I had that skill. We need to remember that.

What would you do if you lost all your possessions?

In the Summer of 2007 I became homeless for the first time in my life. I was however grateful as I managed to get my possessions into a storage unit before everything went sideways.

Being without my books & clothes for over a year taught me that I could live with very little & still be content. I was in a poorly run transitional program where most of the women ended up back out on the street. Everyday I’d have a bully in the building come over & say that when I got kicked out they’d get my pants or shirt or jacket & even my shoes.

However, when I left the program I left with everything intact. I also didn’t cycle back onto the streets like 90% of the women there.

I know that I can survive with only the clothes on my back because I have done it. Having material possessions doesn’t define who I am. If it came down to survival I’d need very little. Having possessions shouldn’t define who you are as a person.

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

Since I’m a writer, I tend to like paper & journals. When I go to a café & write- it’s on paper. I figure one day we’ll need our writing skills that’s why I don’t use a laptop.

Life without computers & smartphones was much simpler. As a child of the 1980’s, something I’m grateful for, life was simpler. You had to purchase your music in either tape or cd form or steal it off the radio. Your phone was connected to the wall, so you couldn’t take it with you everywhere.

Hence, why I don’t sleep with my phone on at night. It’s on flight mode or in the kitchen. I consider the blue screen on the phone just as bad as the laptop. So I limit how much I use it & the TV.

Sometimes it’s nice to Not know Everything & I’m okay with that.