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 1, 2013
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Daughts went to a pool party last weekend. The water was heated to 90 degrees so she didn’t have to pull a Baggarley boy and swim in the freezing cold just because she is half ...
Vivienne / April 30, 2013
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Pool plastering seemed to be a much more labour intensive undergoing than the underpinning of my house! To start with it took three days. One day to drain. Two men arrived before dawn, ...
Vivienne / April 29, 2013
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We had our foundation jacked up last week as part of the final thrust on the road to completing the sale of our family home. Two men came out, dug holes along the side of the house ...
Vivienne / April 25, 2013
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Hubs and I have joined the ranks of the electronically savvy. We each have an iPhone. Hubs bought our newly married son’s 4 while he upgraded to a 5 and I bought one from a ...
Vivienne / April 24, 2013
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I’ve written about some of the spanners that have been thrown into the works while ambitiously undertaking property sales on two continents. For now the Dallas one has sort of ...
Vivienne / April 23, 2013
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Despite the hiccups on our property sale Stateside we’re carrying on regardless. That is rather like jumping out of a flying air craft without a parachute in the hopes that ...
Vivienne / April 22, 2013
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At 11 o’clock this morning I went and sprawled on the living room couch and said, “I’m meant to be writing, can you tell?” Hubs looked up from his computer and ...
Vivienne / April 18, 2013
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Salvation is not a reward. A reward is given in return for good done, A reward smacks of works and we are told that we cannot work our way to heaven, “For it is by grace you have ...
Vivienne / April 17, 2013
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Twenty some odd years ago I bought a painting from a young girl, the daughter of one of my Corporate America colleagues. It was the first painting she had ever sold and she felt like a ...
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.
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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
