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 / January 26, 2015
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My grandmother loved the sales. She would buy blouses, nighties, dresses, stockings, twin-sets, gloves and suits. Her armoire was brimming with bargains to be pulled out and worn during ...
Vivienne / December 24, 2014
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My oldest son has returned to town, or more accurately, to State, and before you say, “Ho-Hum I know this story…” it’s not what you’re thinking (Luke ...
Vivienne / December 12, 2014
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My good friend in words says this in his book, Great Day Every Day, “Gratitude is always an option.” During this season of Thanksgiving and Advent when we look forward to ...
Vivienne / December 5, 2014
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Isaiah (58: 8-10) has a lovely way with words, outlining the kind of fasting the Lord has in mind: “Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer ...
Vivienne / November 26, 2014
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During November we are called to remember our Faithful Departed. London’s Tower kicked things off magnificently earlier this year by commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ...
Vivienne / September 26, 2014
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Where is your watering hole? Where do you go to cool down? To become re-hydrated? To re-fresh yourself? My Benedictine teacher called it Re-sourcing the Soul. What is “it”? ...
Vivienne / September 1, 2014
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Watching the skies at Turkey Creek, Florida I am clearly reminded of the majesty of my Creator, Enjoy His magnificent display accompanied by the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 148:1-5 ...
Vivienne / August 5, 2014
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My blue-eyed cowboy and I read the bible and a devotional every morning…yes we read aloud to each other and it is lovely because then we can share thoughts that arise from the ...
Vivienne / August 1, 2014
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After a steady rain all night mornings are invariably damp and sometimes misty. They hold secrets. Walking back home towards the rising sun I caught what looked like glinting feathers ...
Vivienne / July 21, 2014
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This lovely house of ours has hard-wood floors. And tile floors that are hard too! Great for cleaning up oopsies. Not so great for dust bunnies. Did you know shed dog hair shows up 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
