A Blog by Adrienne Wallace

 I was thinking about Egypt and the things going on there.   I relate much in the world to how we communicate today.   The digital means of connecting and the capital and political ways of being are worthy of evaluation. Egypt is the second largest economy in Africa. United States is still one of the largest in the Western Hemisphere. We used social media to help choose our President in 2008.  In 2011 Egyptians used social media to help overturn their President. #mythinkingisnotsorandom

So here I am again ..Realizing that as I start to write this...it is November 18, 2010 and that Thanksgiving is a week away. We know that the holiday ( Holy Day) conjures up all kinds of emotions and the getting together of friends and family.  I think of many Thanksgivings when I was a child and as such,  if we were with extended family, I sat at the "children's table." I now think about that time and what the differences were between those tables. You had to be a certain age to sit at the "adults table" and in truth I always seemed to have the attention of some adult in the room so I did not think I was missing anything. I did notice though that the fine china would be what the adult table was set with and while the (we) children had breakable plates there were no wine glasses, sharp utensils, or alcoholic beverages within our reach. We laughed and played with each other and sometimes our food. The children's table essentially was the safe place wi...