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 / November 12, 2012
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Being a parent just got harder. I may have to re-define empty nest. Yes, my youngsters have flown the physical coop of home but what about my heart? Just because they no longer live ...
Vivienne / November 1, 2012
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While travelling to Jasper, Arkansas with hubs and rock climbing son, I became aware that we were on the Trail of Tears. Forever homeschooler that I am I tried to remember some of the ...
Vivienne / October 31, 2012
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A lot of the time the content of my Word Press Continuing Ed. college class goes over my head. Last night did not disappoint. Talk of digital fields and RSS feeds was ...
Vivienne / October 25, 2012
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On our second and last day at Horseshoe Canyon hubs and I took a walk. Similar to a hike in that every step or two involved a rock, boulder or fallen tree, we wandered for an hour or ...
Vivienne / October 16, 2012
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Years ago during a continuing battle with the ballet school to respect our Sunday morning mass we had to cave on the Wednesday night service. Even the staunchest atheist knows ...
Vivienne / October 11, 2012
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Since we’ve been back from England we’ve been church hopping, following preachers we like, service times we prefer in the hopes that we may stumble upon a choir, an ...
Vivienne / October 9, 2012
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I’ve been reading blogs about house church. From these blogs come laments for the un-churched, those who don’t know the stories. I first heard of this group during our ...
Vivienne / October 8, 2012
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Today is the anniversary of hub’s and my betrothal. We did not believe in a long engagement so I bore the title, fiance, for two weeks and a day! We had chosen the ring together ...
Vivienne / August 23, 2012
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Coming home may not go down in my family book of life as being the most uplifting moment of my career as a selfless mother. Not that returning into the welcoming arms of my children ...
Vivienne / August 15, 2012
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After being back for three weeks I am beginning to breathe better. The amount of dust I’ve had to tame with a wet cloth was enough to create our own McNeny dust-bowl right here ...
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.
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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
