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 / September 25, 2012
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We were out in Mineola a week or so ago and found an antique shop with this sign in the window, which was a very suitable description for what our house had become during our Gap Year ...
Vivienne / September 24, 2012
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While in England hubs and I would eat lunch, our later than usual break of a fast, around 1pm or 2pm. Late I know but we had usually eaten dinner the evening before with the sunset, ...
Vivienne / September 20, 2012
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I was born and raised in Europe with bidets. A bidet is that little foot bath look-alike that sits alongside the toilet in Continental and British bathrooms. As a young adult I ...
Vivienne / September 19, 2012
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Sometimes setting goals can be clear. When I arrived home for example, I set some short term and long term goals. Short term goals included cleaning my house. Long term goals embraced a ...
Vivienne / September 18, 2012
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Parents of young adults have to be so careful with their opinions. Words are offered thoughtfully, we don’t want to appear pushy, we definitely don’t want to start a fight ...
Vivienne / September 17, 2012
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Daughts has a queen size bed in her room. When we moved to England she went from a twin to a full and loved the added wriggle space. On our recent return to America a friend was getting ...
Vivienne / September 13, 2012
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I bought a red car. It is not only red it is another PT Cruiser, this time christened, Rosa-bella, Rosie for short. I know the caution about red cars, the urban legend about them ...
Vivienne / September 12, 2012
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The weather has cooled off sufficiently and I ventured out for a walk yesterday evening. I asked daughts if she would like to come with me, she declined. I asked hubs, he also declined ...
Vivienne / September 11, 2012
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Research now says that flash bulb memories don’t survive the passage of time quite as accurately as scientists first thought. They become about as reliable as our ordinary ...
Vivienne / September 10, 2012
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I was sent a pair of Computer Eyed Eyewear to test and review. I had printed the reading chart, found on their website, to the exact proportions and tested my vision, without my glasses ...
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
