Vivienne / August 28, 2023
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We decided to go to London in the summer…I know, High Season! However, going ...
Vivienne / February 5, 2012
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I woke up this morning to snow and a fox! The thing about snow is it falls heavily without a sound. Not that we even hear the rain in our flat because we don’t have a roof directly ...
Vivienne / January 27, 2012
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Today, on my yoga mat I practiced. I love the way my instructor refers to my class as a practice. It is not a performance; there are no comparisons allowed; we are not to get frustrated ...
Vivienne / September 25, 2011
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Our youngest daughter visited us today. She had called, well, skyped, last weekend for an hour and said she wanted to come home to see us…could she? What a question! We spent the ...
Vivienne / September 20, 2011
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I scrawled across my postcards from Rome, “Nothing’s changed!” It was supposed to be a joke because there’s not a lot anyone can do to a ruin. They’re ...
Vivienne / August 25, 2011
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I used to own a restaurant in Guernsey a channel island between England and France. It is a twee little place only 5 miles by 7 miles by 9 miles and gets all the weather heaven cares ...
Vivienne / July 14, 2011
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Twenty-two years ago today I was ready to meet my first daughter. I was excited, I had a flashy brooch that spelled out her name pinned to the lapel of any jacket or shirt I was ...
Vivienne / February 26, 2011
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Dinner club tomorrow and this month we are off to Italy. I know what I am wearing, it is a beautiful Laura Ashley that I bought twenty some odd years ago, very chic with the look of a ...
Vivienne / February 25, 2011
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Not only do I find myself double, but triple booked! This is unforgivable and the second calendar must go… I tell my son I have to be able to take my “moving man” hat ...
Vivienne / May 25, 2010
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The next stage in my child rearing adventure was to keep them safe from whacky strangers and other dangerous people who lurk in the world seeking to destroy childhood. I’d not ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
Recommended Reading:
Dominion
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
Hannah’s Child
In this award-winning memoir Stanley Hauerwas gives a frank, transparent account of his own life interwoven with the development of his thought. Unique to this paperback edition is a new afterword that offers Hauerwas's reflections on responses to Hannah's Child.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
