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 / February 12, 2014
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I am a great one for Historic Listed Homes.
I grew up in one in the heart of the English countryside,
Vivienne / February 11, 2014
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I tend to expect cool weather in the winter months and love walking in the brisk temperatures of near freezing. Texans do not!
Vivienne / February 6, 2014
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I was walking… A lady stopped me and said, “Have you seen the pelicans?” “No, where?” I replied. She pointed to the other side of the lake I was walking ...
Vivienne / February 5, 2014
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"See that tree at the end?"
"Yes!" I said fully expecting him to say he'd fallen out of it during a particularly brave feat of super boyhood,
"That's where I buried...must have ...
Vivienne / February 4, 2014
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My mother-in-law’s house has a couple of paintings on the walls. They hold no monetary value, she already sold those to help her out, but they are heirlooms of a sort. Painted by ...
Vivienne / February 3, 2014
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My new favorite word is neo classical. In our hunt around for somewhere to settle, “I just know I’ll be shown the right place,” says hubs, “I will be led!” ...
Vivienne / January 31, 2014
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Daughts did something that made me immediately think, “I would never do that!” But then I know her answer to my more than common outburst, “You’re not me ...
Vivienne / January 30, 2014
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Andy Waters Lakeside Park borders the main lake at Hideaway. Years ago we parked our van there on 4th July to watch fireworks over the water. For the first and last time the children ...
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
