Last week I tried to explain to my students the concept of e-cards. Before social media, text messages, and GIFs (which everyone still pronounces differently), we used e-cards to communicate greetings and celebrations. Most of them could not comprehend a pre-social media world, but a couple of them were excited to tell me that they occasionally receive e-cards from well-meaning grandparents. It was around the year 2001, and I honestly don't remember who sent it first. But somehow, my friend Elisa and I discovered a ridiculous e-card that had a small woman in a white chef's hat, carrying a turkey and singing a song about Thanksgiving. We sent it to everyone we knew- my family and my friends Jeremy and Janetta. Elisa sent it to her own people. And for over 20 years, Elisa and I passed this e-card back and forth to one another. With the creation of Youtube and then social media, it became the thing we posted with our holiday wishes to one another. It's part of Thanksgiving as ...