Like Nancy - see her blog this past Tuesday - I value tradition.

And so it was that Flo and I had dinner the other evening at LeCoucou to celebrate our anniversary.

In addition to a phenomenal meal in a relaxed causal, albeit upscale place, we reminisced about how, a few years ago, we shut our phones to enjoy our dinner. When we turned the phones back on, a plethora of text messages greeted us with the news that a grandchild had been born while we dined. We rushed out to see the newborn at NYU - only a short distance uptown.

No such excitement a few nights ago...only the continuation of a wonderful tradition.

And, as we said goodbye to the waitress, she asked whether she would see us next year.

"Hopefully.... I am ot one to break tradition."