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 / April 13, 2015
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My teacher daughter had to move this week. She had been in her house for just under a year and she scrambled to find a new place as quickly as possible so she didn’t have to ...
Vivienne / April 9, 2015
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My daughter has a friend who has three pooches and a dog-enduring cat that reminds her of our lovely white cat named Moby who lived for two short years and is still missed. Moby loved ...
Vivienne / April 7, 2015
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This Easter was my son and his wife’s wedding anniversary. Understandably they had other plans besides spending the day with us! Our other children did too, none as compelling, ...
Vivienne / April 2, 2015
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Daughts brought me some flowers the day before she left for a week in Galveston. Spring fresh tulips. They kept me company, reminding me of her for the week. Peach is a colour she wears ...
Vivienne / April 1, 2015
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Daughts makes a face when I suggest she take Yoga, “It’s too slow and I don’t have the patience.” Granted it’s not like Jazzercise or punchy modern or ...
Vivienne / March 27, 2015
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We have a trail adjacent to the apartments where we live. I’ve walked it in snow, cloud, sun and… there is something about walking in the rain that is so very English! I ...
Vivienne / March 24, 2015
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I first had the pleasure of Callie Coe’s company on January 27th. I jotted down the phone number on her identity tag in my notebook and called the owner to make sure he knew where ...
Vivienne / March 20, 2015
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My cinema experiences are usually positive. Never have I had to turn around to the person behind me to scold her for making too much noise, or tapped the man in front on the shoulder to ...
Vivienne / March 18, 2015
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Sometimes I wake up with a song going round in my head. A blessed gift when it’s a beautiful hymn heard at a recent service at The Church of the Incarnation. It took me back to my ...
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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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
