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 / November 2, 2011
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I’ve been introduced to a lot of elephants recently. Pachyderms is such a lovely word for what is now an obsolete order, almost sounds as prehistoric as the Olifant (its archaic ...
Vivienne / November 1, 2011
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Today is All Hallows, yesterday was All Hallows Eve, commonly known as Halloween, another high holy day that has lost its sacred meaning amid the secular. As we walked through the ...
Vivienne / October 31, 2011
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Posting and other writings go by the wayside when there are guests at home; even more so when those guests are offspring. Today has been the first full day in almost a month when I have ...
Vivienne / October 27, 2011
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For the first time since I can remember in my decision making history I realize I have made a bumbling mistake. My judgment, carefully weighed and measured, missed its mark. For ...
Vivienne / October 25, 2011
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An observation I made in Ireland’s fair and green city of Dublin has to do with our auditory sense. I was there with my zoo-keeper son, Simon, and since we were still using ...
Vivienne / October 23, 2011
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Today is my 27th wedding anniversary! “Dang, that’s a long time, wasn’t it just your 25th…two years ago?” Malia’s math is spot on! More accurately it is our 27th wedding anniversary ...
Vivienne / October 22, 2011
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We had another long trip out to Heathrow today. When we entrusted our son to the waiting wings of his aeroplane, a couple of days ago, I commented to Hubs that it seemed a long time ...
Vivienne / October 21, 2011
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I’ve had a busy two weeks, so busy in fact I’ve not had a spare moment to sit down and post. More to the point, I’ve sadly neglected my Yoga and my evening walks. Not that I’ve needed ...
Vivienne / October 20, 2011
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We arose at the crack of dawn to accompany our son to the airport. He had said, “Mum, you don’t have to come,” to which I had replied, “If I don’t come then your father is going to ...
Vivienne / October 8, 2011
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My hubs picks up the free newspapers to read on the train. There is not a lot of news in these little publications, although they have lots of pages they are more sensational than ...
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
