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By popular request - here are the fabulous details from an amazing night!

You all know that Jerry is an amazing writer, and a very thoughtful person. Since we met I have received cards and letters and poems every once in a while that I love! 

So, for our anniversary on December 2nd Jerry and I exchanged cards.

Jer wrote me a poem and said that it would take more than one card to say everything....so since then I have gotten a card every day with a new thought!

All the cards have had the same image on them - of a bridge in Central Park, just below the Plaza Hotel and next to Wollman Rink.

Last night he surprised me with dinner at one of my favorite places, and then with a drink at the new champagne bar at The Plaza. And, of course, a quick visit to see Eloise. (Since I am a kindergarten teacher and a native New Yorker she is a big deal!)

And all night Jerry was talking about all the Christmas lights in the city and all the internet reading he does about events in the city and on and on....so he suggests we walk into the park. For some reason I decided there must be fireworks at Wollman Rink or something.

Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

Stunning Break with Last Eight Years
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.

But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.

According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement," says Mr. Logsdon. "If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist."