January 22, 2016
Embrace Your Inner Quitter
Quitting isn’t always a bad thing, you know. In fact, sometimes it’s a really good thing. A necessary thing. Winners quit things in order to win. Quitters become winners all…
January 14, 2016
Gifts of Winter
I used to hate winter. Especially January. For many years. And I absolutely refused to believe I could feel differently about it. Hate it I did, and hate it I would...'til my dying…
January 8, 2016
Bird’s Eye View from the Nest
I love the view from my room at "The Nest." I love the landscape...and the birds that nest in the rafters outside my window. I love the houses, the greenhouse,…
January 1, 2016
A Cup of Kindness for 2016
Happy New Year from UnbridledACTS! Wherever you happened to be at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, chances are you lip-synched your way through the illusive lyrics of…
December 24, 2015
Keeping Christmas…at Every Age
Keeping Christmas comes so naturally to children. They’re brilliant at it, which means there was a time when the same could said for us as well. A time when it…
December 18, 2015
What Love Is…
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas when you stop opening presents and listen. ~ Bobby, age 7 Only a 7-year-old could say it so well and…
December 11, 2015
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
Charlie Brown…one of our generation’s most relate-able blockheads. A kid we can all identify with. The kind you’d like to have as next-door neighbor. Or not… With friends like his,…
December 4, 2015
‘Tis the Season
It’s unusual for me to be in the Christmas spirit this early in the season. In fact, if you were following the Journal this time last year, you might recall…
November 26, 2015
Nice Normal Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving…by any other name is still the same. Call it what you will {Friendsgiving, Food & Football, Gobble & Wobble, or Turkey & Toast}, it remains a much-loved and heart-warming…
November 20, 2015
Re-Thinking Skipping Thanksgiving
Anybody out there thinking of skipping Thanksgiving this year? Maybe Christmas, too, while you’re at it? Holidays can be tough for some of us. {OK, a lot of us.} So,…