Vivienne / July 14, 2023
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Let’s start at the very beginning shall we? Your Papa and I fell for each ...
Vivienne / June 6, 2016
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On my Yoga mat I am encouraged to breathe in concert with my moves. Being an asthma sufferer I am not very good at this, I find I panic when I have to match each asana with either an ...
Vivienne / May 25, 2016
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For years I have taken the Ascension at face value, believing what I had been taught as a child and not questioning my faith that states: Christ died, Rose from the dead, and Ascended ...
Vivienne / March 31, 2016
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Playing with fire is dangerous I was always told by my mother and grandmother and anyone else who caught me in front of a roaring fireplace, staring into the flames, entranced by the ...
Vivienne / February 14, 2016
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At dinner with friends last night they were talking about re-opening their winery, “Isn’t it a bit early in the season?” I asked, “It’s still freezing ...
Vivienne / February 9, 2016
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Today is Shrove Tuesday. It’s also called Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday. Today we traditionally feast on what we will deprive ourselves of during the coming six weeks until Easter. ...
Vivienne / February 5, 2016
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Parenting never ends! I speak from experience! As I try to take a back seat to give my children enough elbow room to happen upon themselves I am called back to my primary job with a ...
Vivienne / February 3, 2016
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Sunday school today had us talking about the Old and the New Testament. How much weight do we accord the Old when reading the New? For me the Old Testament is the history of a nation. ...
Vivienne / January 18, 2016
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Yesterday morning the ground was covered with a generous layer of frost that had everything twinkling like fairy lights in the early morning sun. My land looked beautiful. As Hubs and I ...
Vivienne / January 12, 2016
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How often do we act on advice given to us by well meaning friends? How well do we pay attention to warnings issued by family members? How closely do we heed the guidelines set forth by ...
Vivienne / December 23, 2015
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“After He dismissed them, He went up on a mountainside by Himself to pray. When evening came He was there alone.” (Matthew 14:23) When Jesus wanted to talk to His father ...
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
