PJ: What’s your name?
LS: Laurie Simmons

PJ: Your birthday?
LS: October 3rd, 1949

PJ: What’s your star sign?
LS: Libra. 

PJ: Your blood type?
LS: A+.

PJ: What type of women do you like
LS: Funny, Brilliant, Curious, Honest, Self Aware, Self-made

PJ: What type don’t you like
LS:Self-Involved, Self-conscious, Self-righteous, Self -serving

PJ: Who are your current lovers?
LS: Literally, My Husband .  ALSO - My collie Penny , My son Cyrus, My daughter Lena.. I’m in love with all of them.

PJ: What’s your favourite food?
LS: Oh god that’s so hard: Pasta Vongole, Fried Chicken, Coconut layer Cake, Candy Corn,

PJ: What food don’t you like?
LS: Apples

PJ: What’s your favourite fashion?
LS: Monochrome silk outfits, velvet year round, pastel pants suits, beautiful knits, stuff that looks like a school uniform or a riding outfit. EVERYTHING by Guild of Hands, white cotton socks and underpants, oxfords and brogues, very pointy toed boots. Japanese kimonos at home. Spots and Stripes.

PJ: What fashion don’t you like?
LS: Really constricting things and Fast Fashion

PJ: What’s your hobby?
LS: I don’t have one. I’m an artist.

PJ: What were you doing last Sunday?
LS: :Making a frittata and bread and butter pudding  And taking three children to meet my daughter’s pigs. (Victor and Cherry)

PJ: When did you wake up this morning?
LS: 5:30 AM.

PJ: Who’s your favourite fashion designer?
LS: Christy Rilling, Guild of Hands.

PJ: Favourite lipstick?
LS:Chantecaille Lip Chic: Foxglove, Dahlia and Damask,

PJ: Foundation?
LS: SAIE  Slip Tint

PJ: Perfume?
LS: Byredo Rose Noir

PJ: What colour hair do you wish you were born with?
LS: RED

PJ: Are you a good cook?
LS: Not great but I love feeding people

PJ: What food do you cook best?
LS: Sheet pan dinners and peanut butter cookies

PJ: What do you wear when you sleep?
LS: A long stretchy night gown I can cocoon in

PJ: What did you eat when you woke up this morning?
LS: Very strong coffee with half and half and toast with cheese from the farmer next door

PJ: What’s your favourite word?
LS: Wonderful!

PJ: What words don’t you like?
LS: Stupid words for body parts

PJ: What’s your favourite flower?
LS: Peony and Dahlia

PJ: Favourite colour?
LS: RED

PJ: What’s your favourite season?
LS: A tie for spring summer and fall

PJ: Where do you most want to go now?
LS: Home

PJ: What’s your job?
LS: Visual Artist

PJ: Do you like your work?
LS: Love it!.

PJ: Do you like your job?
LS: YES I don’t know how to do anything else.

PJ: Do you like your voice?
LS: I do like my voice

PJ: What is your dream of the future?
LS: An impossible dream of peace and acceptance

PJ: What’s the happiest thing about your life?
LS: My Family, my work, my friends

PJ: How about the saddest?
LS: So much sadness right now –
I despise  the ugliness directed towards transgender  people

PJ: What part of yourself do you like best?
LS: The part that’s genuinely generous

PJ: What part of yourself don’t you like?
LS: When  I don’t feel generous or feel deprived

PJ: What part of your personality do you like best?
LS: The part that can connect with people

PJ: What part of your personality don’t you like?
LS: When I feel world weary

PJ: What is your habit?
LS: Meditating every morning

PJ: When was your first love?
LS: Six years old, literally the boy next door

PJ: What kind of guy was he?
LS: A six year old who brought me flowers when I fell off my bike .

PJ: What type of guy’s your current lover?
LS: A beautiful  brilliant artist who seems to really love our life

PJ:What do you expect from them?
LS: Just more of the same

PJ: What did you dream last night?
LS: Can’t remember

PJ: Do you believe in dreams?
LS: Yes

PJ: Do you believe in jinxes?
LS: Nope

PJ: Do you believe in magic?
LS: Most definitely

PJ: Do you believe in god?
LS: Yes! But  my own version