We're not sure if Sally Field sends Christmas cards, but we do know she enjoys celebrating the holidays with her grandchildren.

She played a nun celebrating Christmas and directed the TV film The Christmas Tree, but I have found only one reference of Sally Field celebrating Christmas. In homespun tradition, she and her grandchildren celebrate with art projects. Apparently, Sally has buckets of materials that can be used for these art projects and gives her grandchildren gifts of art supplies for the holidays. I don’t know if she sends Christmas cards but we will return to that in a bit.

Sally arrived on TV in 1965 playing the lead role in Gidget. She followed this role by playing the lead in the TV series The Flying Nun from 1967 through 1970. Her high energy and feistiness of those years still show through today almost 40 years later. She appears most often today as spokesperson for Boniva, an osteoporosis medication. She was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2005 and has since been on medication to control bone loss. She has become an advocate for bringing this serious, often overlooked disease that can lead to extreme pain and disability, mainly for women, into the public eye.

Early in her career an agent told her that she wasn’t a good enough actor for movies. She fired her agent and in her inimitable style proceeded to study acting at night at the Actor’s Studio, with the acting coach Lee Strasberg. Her movie career earned her two Oscars; one for Norma Rae, the other for Places in the Heart along with numerous other awards and nominations.

It took her a long time to prove that she could act in mature roles, because to this day, we still picture the young Sally; she seems to be ageless. Sally has proven her mettle over the years by undertaking roles such as Sybil in the movie of the same name. She also played the mother in Forest Gump. We are lucky that she had the confidence in herself to fire the agent and follow her instinct that she could play mature roles in movies.

Her personal life includes two unsuccessful marriages and a long-time relationship with Burt Reynolds. According to the tabloids, she rejected a number of marriage proposals by Burt Reynolds. She has three children from her marriages; Peter and Eli Craig from her marriage to Steven Craig and Samuel Greisman from her marriage to Alan Greisman. She has been reported as saying, “I’ve never had my heart broken, I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.” Currently her Malibu home is shared with her mother and two dogs.

Back to Sally Field sending as her Christmas cards. She keeps her religion private so I wouldn’t assume she would send a traditional Christmas card. She is an avid gardener, so maybe she would use a picture of a bougainvillea like the ones that grow at her Malibu home with a “Peace to All on Earth” sentiment. After all, she does live in sunny, warm California where most people wish for a white Christmas but rarely see one, and surely wishing peace to all would go along with her anti-war sentiments. Or perhaps she’d display a picture of her favorite tree, a gnarled oak, which also grows behind her home. This oak has suffered from age and was scorched by a California wildfire but still grows. She spoke fondly of the tree in a Ladies Home Journal interview: “This is my favorite tree. It’s been around a long time and as you can see it’s come into contact with some struggle and hard times over the years. But it’s still alive and still enjoying life.” The same can be said of Sally Field. She has survived a lot but is still the strong and saucy young woman that supposedly broke an actor’s ribs during the filming of Norma Rae. He was playing the cop that was carrying Norma Rae out of the factory during a protest. Truly getting into character, she kicked him so hard that she broke a rib. I hope she will be entertaining us for a long time to come.