1. Describe what you see when you look out your front door or window.

From my front door, I look out onto a street that holds hundreds of years of character. The horse drawn carriages still pass here. Today they hold tourists wanting a taste of days gone but not forgotten. Natives and native want-to-bes stroll by with their dogs on the way to the park or coffee shop. In the early morning, cars flash by carrying locals to work in the central business district only fifteen blocks away. During cooler seasons, you may see neighbors sitting on their steps, greeting passers-by. The dog days of summer see the street quiet during the heat of the day, and at night, no matter what the temperature, the street is criss- crossed with locals and visitors both enjoying the corner businesses: the restaurant, the laundry, the coffee shop, the gay bar, the jazz bar, the bike shop or bookstore. The view is often quiet but never dull and often busy but never overwhelming.

2. If you run out of milk or get a sudden craving for chocolate at 10:00 P.M., what do you have to do to get it?

It's 10pm and I awake from a short nap ready to spend hours on the computer or go out with friends only to find that I am out of milk and chocolate. The heck with the milk. If you really need it, it is only a short walk to the corner grocery three blocks away. Better yet, lets walk a half block to the coffee house and have chocolate delights with our milk and coffee or just milk. Want something more interesting? A half block in the other direction is a bar where you can get the best chocolate liquor with milk or cream floating over the sweet, sticky surface. Hey, it's always easy in the Big Easy.

3. If 2 women or 2 men walked down the main street holding hands how would people react?

If two men or two women or a man and a woman are walking holding hands on Canal Street or in the French Quarter, we'd see the act as comfortable, loving, ordinary. It's the tourists that react usually. We get many unwanted, ignorant visitors that think they can do anything, anywhere in the Big Easy and that just isn't true. We locals resent people who forget they are guests in our home and show intolerance towards our inclusive lifestyle.

4. Describe your favorite hang-out.

My favorite hang-out is anywhere that I can relax and enjoy my friends. There are many places like that in the Big Easy. You can sit out at the lakeshore enjoying the breeze or watching folks play ball or daydreaming over the sailboats gliding across the glassy surface. You can sit in some of the friendliest bars in the world drinking coke if that's your choice, chatting with old friends or making new ones. One of my favorite places is my home, with or without friends, and always with my shaggy white poodle, Freddie.

5. Give us your own, original one-line slogan for your city/town.

People call my home "the city that care forgot" or the "Big Easy". I say, "New Orleans is a Lifestyle and there's nuttin' to it." You don't understand !! Well "nuttin' to it" means that everything is OK, layback, comfortable, easy. For example if you pass someone on the street that you don't know, you smile and one of you will say "Where ya't?" and the other person replies, "nuttin' to it." Or in American, how are you, I'm fine.