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 / October 31, 2014
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While in L.A. with our son he interviewed me for one of his podcasts. He has launched a network and has a few pods up and running and this one is his latest with a working title of ...
Vivienne / October 29, 2014
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We spent the last week in California visiting our film maker son and I must say I was quite impressed with the city. It wasn’t shrouded in smog as of old and the views were ...
Vivienne / October 17, 2014
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Two years ago my self-sustainable, rock climbing, Wildman, son was in a dither. A state of agitation is a more accurate depiction but isn’t dither such a fabulous word? Hubs and I ...
Vivienne / October 8, 2014
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There is something about the nomadic life that is growing on me. Although I am craving removing my stuff from storage and getting settled back into a home I don’t want any old ...
Vivienne / October 6, 2014
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Hubs and I both work from home. We need a two bedroom apartment, even though it’s only the two of us, because he, unlike me, talks! If he thought too much (as he says I do) And ...
Vivienne / October 3, 2014
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My son and his wife have an Education Permit that allows them to keep native birds for educational use. These birds come under government control so don’t get any ideas, you ...
Vivienne / September 30, 2014
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Quite a few years ago I was pregnant for the first time and so naturally I had a Due Date. Things happened, or should I say, things didn’t happen. My due date came and went… ...
Vivienne / September 26, 2014
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Where is your watering hole? Where do you go to cool down? To become re-hydrated? To re-fresh yourself? My Benedictine teacher called it Re-sourcing the Soul. What is “it”? ...
Vivienne / September 24, 2014
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Donna Tartt has written a very long book. Called The Goldfinch it weighs in at 755 pages I have been reading it for two days and hardly made a dent in it as I look over at my bedside ...
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
