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 7, 2021
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There was a smell in my bedroom. The weather had been wet, the windows closed, the heat on and I put it down to damp wood, or dusty corners; cat fur or lingering cooking smells; laundry ...
Vivienne / May 4, 2021
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This masking up has become a habit. Fourteen months ago all I could do was complain… “I can’t breathe.” “No-one can see my happy smile.” “My ...
Vivienne / April 30, 2021
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One of my friends this week said, “When’s Malia due?” “Next Monday, ” I said. “Are you just,’ ho-hum, been there done ...
Vivienne / April 26, 2021
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How did I become a horse person almost overnight? Here I am researching behaviours, best cleaning methods, bathing pros and cons even innate habits that may or may not be reasons why a ...
Vivienne / April 19, 2021
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We were asked to babysit Sophie Sparrow for the first time ever. She is 18 months old and goes everywhere with Mum and Dad. “The party this Saturday says ‘no ...
Vivienne / April 13, 2021
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At Footlights there’s never a dull moment. We’re always mowing, pulling up thistle, dragging brambles out of trees, identifying birdsong, burning brush, building something ...
Vivienne / April 6, 2021
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This time of year, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday, is my most favourite season of the liturgical church. Six weeks of spiritual preparation; setting aside time ...
Vivienne / March 30, 2021
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I think I’ve achieved what I wanted to when I approached the owner of Grandalia Bend Farms on Rigsby Lane to ask if I could help around her horse barn. I’d always dreamed ...
Vivienne / March 23, 2021
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On Sunday Hubs and I threw a baby shower for Olivia Grace, due April 26th. Daughts and her Hubs attended with her since she’s in vitro for five more weeks. However, thanks to a ...
Vivienne / March 16, 2021
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When I get up in the morning the first thing I do is patter into the cat room to feed the waiting herd. Callie is always on the dryer, – oh, by the way, did I mention they let me ...
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
