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 / December 5, 2014
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Isaiah (58: 8-10) has a lovely way with words, outlining the kind of fasting the Lord has in mind: “Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer ...
Vivienne / December 3, 2014
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Thanksgiving this year was a little different. I say a little with a smile on my face because, like July 4th, this is not one of my holidays so without my American clan around me I ...
Vivienne / November 29, 2014
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To say the move went smoothly on day two would be an exaggeration. The men arrived at our storage unit with a few pieces of furniture from our son’s and began the painful process ...
Vivienne / November 26, 2014
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During November we are called to remember our Faithful Departed. London’s Tower kicked things off magnificently earlier this year by commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ...
Vivienne / November 24, 2014
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We were at the house in Lucas for a month, less than a month really but it felt like more. The main reason was that unlike the other places we have stayed during these years of ...
Vivienne / November 20, 2014
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There were barn cats where we lived for a month. They would flock to us when we took our tea outside, and purr in our ears, rub their faces against our legs, sit in our laps and even ...
Vivienne / November 12, 2014
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Texas, or at least the Lucas part where I’m living at the moment, froze last night! Look at the icicles hanging off the fountain! I don’t do well in cold weather. Neither ...
Vivienne / November 9, 2014
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I have come of age! Not for the first time in my life for there are many age milestones. Puberty, voting, leaving home, marriage and parenthood spring to mind without much ...
Vivienne / November 7, 2014
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Our son and his wife are building a facility to house their birds and they have very supportive friends and colleagues. Summit rock climbing wall offered to let them use their space for ...
Vivienne / November 5, 2014
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Visiting California, in particular Los Angeles, brings with it Show Business. It’s the name of the game out there and everyone is affiliated somehow even if they are just checking ...
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
