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 6, 2012
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I told a friend of mine that while hubs and I were taking our Gap Year in England we noticed that without children our relationship changed. Not in a life shattering way but subtly. ...
Vivienne / September 5, 2012
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I managed to physically get out of my rut. I shrugged everything off my back, shook the dust from my feet and breathed deeply. In the past when I moved on I never went back. However, ...
Vivienne / September 4, 2012
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My brother and I went to school around the corner from our house in London. Our garden backed onto the convent playing fields and teachers would jokingly tell my father to throw us ...
Vivienne / September 3, 2012
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It’s a holiday and my teacher daughter is just starting to feel better after a whole week of being really, really sick. She’s hundreds of miles away from her wannabe ...
Vivienne / August 30, 2012
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There are such things as flying squirrels and I have a family of them living in my garden. They were probably born in my chimney this Spring while I was in England. Signs of a hasty ...
Vivienne / August 29, 2012
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I’ve had some interesting reactions to my hair since I’ve been back, from “pretty colour” to “sexy” to “youthful” to “I like ...
Vivienne / August 28, 2012
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When I read reports that exercising regularly and eating particular foods increases energy levels and reverses the aging process I usually jump on the band wagon. Who doesn’t ...
Vivienne / August 23, 2012
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Coming home may not go down in my family book of life as being the most uplifting moment of my career as a selfless mother. Not that returning into the welcoming arms of my children ...
Vivienne / August 22, 2012
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We had been ill on our return home and grandmama in Lindale did not want any germs carted into her city and through her house. Four weeks after landing we visited the matriarch of this ...
Vivienne / August 21, 2012
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We sold our cars when we left for England not really knowing when we’d be back and wanting a clean break, nothing left to lure us back into the rut. So, the consequence was that ...
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
