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 / December 19, 2015
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We have enjoyed the work of a monster machine on our property this week. With a few acres of woodlands strangled by underbrush and thorny bushes we could not walk down to our creek ...
Vivienne / December 16, 2015
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Our Advent meditation this year has been about Practicing Patience… About letting go of the instant gratification that runs rampant today in a culture that glorifies immediate ...
Vivienne / December 11, 2015
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On my yoga mat I practice being mindful. Last week I began to think of inspiration and how, if I want to catch its full effect, the light bulb moment, I need to stand in its way, Be ...
Vivienne / November 25, 2015
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On my walk yesterday I went in search of a boot and a shoe, taken by our visiting dog Charlie to harass and worry before discarding in hot pursuit of a rabbit. I didn’t find ...
Vivienne / November 23, 2015
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My Christian faith tells me that when I surrender and give up my false idols, When I die to self and live as God intends me to, Freedom will soar. But what exactly does ‘dying to ...
Vivienne / November 13, 2015
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When I homeschooled and we took a few weeks break during the summer I was usually ready to go back to my schedule, buy supplies, write out lesson plans, draw up meal menus, organize ...
Vivienne / October 30, 2015
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I look across a field and see cows speckling the landscape and marvel at distance and space, I know how large a cow is and for them to look about as big as my thumb they must be a long ...
Vivienne / October 19, 2015
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We stayed near Los Alamos in New Mexico for three days. The first morning I awoke with a crushing head-ache that I initially thought was brought on by the couple of glasses of wine ...
Vivienne / September 16, 2015
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Sunflowers grow up among the broom weed turning meadows into misty places dotted with yellow. They twist and twine around the barbed wire changing fences, that keep the animals in and ...
Vivienne / August 10, 2015
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“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” (James 1:2-3) Joy? I think. In ...
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
