In honor of Mardi Gras 2006, we present Phillip’s return to New Orleans & a fun Mardi Gras quiz.

• What kind of Mardi Gras reveler are you?
• Return and Resurrection: Our Hopes for Our City

  Returning to New Orleans after the twin visits granted our city during the hurricane season of ’05 was quite a daunting task to undertake, though maybe not for the reasons one might suspect. My wife and I had been exiled for well over a month, sleeping on my parent’s futon in Mobile, AL. The first time we heard that the mayor was going to let us return home Rita beat us to the punch and we had to wait once again with bated breath as new stories of flooding and destruction came streaming over the media channels declaring that our abandoned city was once again ravaged.

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