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 / August 3, 2015
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There are certain things for me that bring on heart-ache. That make my stomach flip, or my heart plunge or the butterflies below my diaphragm flurry. When I walk through a graveyard I ...
Vivienne / July 29, 2015
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My Benedictine practice suggests that I live in the present and with the help of prayer, reflection and yoga I try to keep my mind focused on the here and now. I believe we are ...
Vivienne / July 16, 2015
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My oldest son poses some difficult questions, “To get us really talking,” he explains, “I love to hear your views on things. Why do Christians think that everyone ...
Vivienne / July 1, 2015
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I worry about my children and it puts a wedge between me and God. I think He needs my help since I’m their mother and know them best and my throat is parched. I want them to have ...
Vivienne / June 24, 2015
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Today is the feast of St. John the Baptist and my mind turns to the parish church of St. George’s in Beckenham, our place of worship in London for 18 months. It was here that I ...
Vivienne / June 10, 2015
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As I unpacked at Footlights I emptied every box and decided what I wanted to keep. There was no, “I’ll tackle this later, let’s just put it in the attic…” ...
Vivienne / May 22, 2015
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When we moved into our country estate less than a fortnight ago the reality hit me. We were empty nesters and no matter how many properties we sold, or countries we lived in or house ...
Vivienne / April 29, 2015
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There have been times in my life when I’ve felt trapped by an event or a circumstance. I feel my lungs contract and find it difficult to catch my breath. I fling open a window to let ...
Vivienne / April 27, 2015
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Behind our flat is a forest preserve that offers some familiar scents made more pungent by the deluge of rain these last few days. The accompanying rise in temperature leaves the air ...
Vivienne / April 17, 2015
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It pays to be organized, especially when you move a lot as we have been doing over the last two years. Our teacher daughter said, “I worry about you moving all the time, it must ...
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
