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 17, 2013
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What makes Christmas so much more stressful than Thanksgiving, or Easter, or 4th of July? Is it the thrust of advertising on the television guilting us into spending more money than we ...
Vivienne / December 16, 2013
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Daughts knows a photographer from Ewing Global who takes photos. She agreed to be a model for him and I worried, “Nothing Nakie I hope?” “No Mum!” You have to ...
Vivienne / December 13, 2013
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Right in the middle of Daughts’ busy life with multiple jobs, classes and the upkeep of an apartment the snow hit. Well at least the ice and with it a shift in routine. When the ...
Vivienne / December 12, 2013
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I am not a dweller. I don’t bear grudges, my grandmother did. She didn’t talk to her sister for years over a gift misunderstanding. They finally began the slow road to ...
Vivienne / December 11, 2013
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Now some words about Daughts! Since I no longer get an update from Mistral I am missing posting about my dancer daughter. She’s been back here just over a month and not dragged ...
Vivienne / December 11, 2013
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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of watching two macaws take a bath. They would have needed a swimming pool to splash around as a sparrow does in in a puddle. Instead they got a ...
Vivienne / December 5, 2013
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All right it’s been a week; And holidays are stressful aren’t they? Would it be Ok to wish myself on a tropical beach to get away from the next few weeks? No! In fact I ...
Vivienne / December 4, 2013
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You all know I am living at my mother-in-law’s house which is lovely, roomy, comfortable, deep in the heart of Texas. It is not mine however! I prefer to turn the heat off during ...
Vivienne / December 3, 2013
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Walking in the ancient woods in Beckenham is relatively safe if, as I discovered weeks later, I don’t pick up those wild chestnuts that line the lanes in Autumn. The little ...
Vivienne / December 2, 2013
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While Daughts was cruising she spent some time in the Mediterranean. Italy had three ports of call, Naples, Civitavecchia and Trapani. Since September when she first arrived in the ...
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
