Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
Vivienne / June 18, 2018
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This summer Hubs and I managed to take a break in Sonoma Valley, California. Wine tasting country. We soon discovered that drinking heady grape juice from first thing in the morning ...
Vivienne / June 15, 2018
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Our son and his wife, founders of the non-profit company, Window to the Wild, had a few dates booked at the Arboretum with their birds. We enjoy seeing them fly their feathered ...
Vivienne / May 14, 2018
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Now that I’m a mother of twenty/thirty-somethings I find it refreshing to go through their early photo albums; when they were really young. I regard fondly the exuberant, ...
Vivienne / May 8, 2018
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May 8th has rolled around again and I am amazed that I still feel such a sense of calm on this day, as if it is my special day… But it’s not. It’s my Mum’s. ...
Vivienne / April 19, 2018
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I have been thinking about the culture of hand held and not so hand held devices. An advertisement at the cinema caught my eye this week, It was for a new, interactive, game. The ...
Vivienne / April 16, 2018
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Last night we decided to have blackened fish. Hubs and I got out a couple of fillets and popped them in a bowl of water, still wrapped in plastic and frozen. It can’t be the smell ...
Vivienne / April 11, 2018
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On Saturday mornings we stay in bed a little bit, to drink coffee and eat cake… Well, Hubs eats cake, it’s just coffee for me. Back in the days before I changed my dietary ...
Vivienne / March 28, 2018
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Hubs and I looked after the dogs down at the winery for a couple of days in return for honey. There are three of them, a young Corgi named Charlotte, Lottie for short. A 3 month blue ...
Vivienne / March 22, 2018
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Trader Joe’s have daffodils. I always forget this unless I’m there just at the right time, which I was last week. There they were $1 something a bunch, most of them tightly ...
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
