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 / July 16, 2013
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When my prayers are answered, When life seems to be falling into place without much help from me, When the outcome could only have been the doing of God, When I am amazed once again ...
Vivienne / June 24, 2013
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A year ago I was at evensong in the Parish Church, Beckenham, St. George’s. It was the feast of the birth of John The Baptist, June 24th. A young member of the choir sang, This is ...
Vivienne / June 20, 2013
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There is a place in the ancient woods where I take my walk that is a dumping ground for trees and branches. Last year it was covered with deceased timber and an eye sore in a natural ...
Vivienne / February 14, 2013
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Love is in the air! Immediately I think of Paul’s 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 I had my children re-write these lovely verses in their own words when they were pre-teens. ...
Vivienne / February 11, 2013
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We say we will pray for people. It has become a platitude, “I’m praying for you…” If you don’t pray regularly, how can you say you’ll pray ...
Vivienne / December 18, 2012
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(Photo credit: HSLDA Facebook) It takes time for me to fully process events. Hence my silence on what happened last Friday. I gave up reading National news years ago when everything was ...
Vivienne / November 28, 2012
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I was very worried about my busy week. I checked my calendars endlessly to make sure I wasn’t overlooking something. I was freshly surprised, after each examination, by new events ...
Vivienne / November 27, 2012
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A feeling of stuckness prevails at the moment. Something I did not want to happen upon my return to America. And yet here I am again. Mired in the sludge of my life. I am waiting for ...
Vivienne / November 22, 2012
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I love the teachings that I get from my yoga classes. And before you think I’m going all New Age on you, most of what I hear from my instructors is deeply steeped in Christian ...
Vivienne / November 14, 2012
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I have been enlisted to help one of sons with a couple of letters recently. One was his letter of resignation. He sent me a one liner stating his intention to leave and I turned it ...
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
