Vivienne / February 11, 2024
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There are a lot of fields surrounding us but since our land is bordered with trees ...
Vivienne / May 18, 2015
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I’m taking a short break today to get to my first love, writing! More than a week without expressing myself on keyboard has taken its toll, I feel overburdened, frustrated and ...
Vivienne / May 8, 2015
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When I was young kindly folk told me I looked like my father. No little girl, no matter how much she loves her Daddy, wants to be told that. “He’s a man and I’m a ...
Vivienne / May 6, 2015
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Last Saturday I went to Julie Andrews Grindele’s 20th Jazzercise Anniversary. After days of rain the sun came out on this much anticipated and exciting event and we danced, as if ...
Vivienne / May 1, 2015
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My son and his wife, who have their own company Window to the Wild, were all about the birds and the bees this week. It must be the sudden onslaught of Spring with the rain bringing ...
Vivienne / April 29, 2015
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There have been times in my life when I’ve felt trapped by an event or a circumstance. I feel my lungs contract and find it difficult to catch my breath. I fling open a window to let ...
Vivienne / April 27, 2015
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Behind our flat is a forest preserve that offers some familiar scents made more pungent by the deluge of rain these last few days. The accompanying rise in temperature leaves the air ...
Vivienne / April 21, 2015
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As you know, my son, Simon and his wife, Lindsey, have a not for profit business called Window to the Wild. I’ve told you about their Tiny House and how it’s parked at ...
Vivienne / April 17, 2015
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It pays to be organized, especially when you move a lot as we have been doing over the last two years. Our teacher daughter said, “I worry about you moving all the time, it must ...
Vivienne / April 15, 2015
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We’ve know the sweet Callie Coe for ten weeks now. She likes to sit, all prim and proper, on the red rug I brought home from England belonging to my parents, slap dab in the ...
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.
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Hannah’s Child
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