• I write books.

    I do! It's true. I have written for all sorts of different audiences. My first book was literary adult fiction and I've written many many books that have fallen into the category "juvenile fiction" and "YA fiction". I talk about my books and writing in general on my other site, which is at www.karenrivers.com. (I don't know how to make that a live link, so you may have to copy and paste.) (Sorry.) THIS site is about me, my hair, my kids, my appliances, and that time that I rode my bike down a cliff and then got stung by a bee. It may not all be appropriately awesome (or even slightly interesting) to kids, so if you are young, LOOK AWAY. That said, there is nothing harmful here, except the occasional swear, which I ask you to edit out with your eyes. Blink blink.
  • I take pictures.







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  • Is it safe to eat raw bacon?

    No. You shouldn't eat any raw pork products. You could get trichinosis and no doubt a number of other food-borne illnesses. With the recent change in food safety standards, I'd frankly cook the crap out of any meat product I purchased before eating it. Even if it's already cooked. Seriously. Keep in mind that I am not a raw bacon expert, I just play one on the web.

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Bonus Post: Another Answer to a Question You Didn’t Actually Ask. About — what else? — BACON.

If you do not know me in real life or on Twitter or Facebook or from my books, you probably landed on this site by searching either “Where did Jillian Harris get those red boots?” (Answer:  I have no idea.) or, more probably, “Is it safe to eat raw bacon?” (Answer:  No.)   Today I am [...]

Five dresses that I covet because … pretty! Not that they fit my lifestyle in any way because they are not “yoga pants” or “ugly”.

It’s time for more fantasy shopping because why not?   I like shopping and also imaginary shopping.   I also like to pretend that I DO look like Kate Walsh because my mum told me that I did the other day and she’s not one to dish out compliments randomly or with an ulterior motive.   She was [...]

In which I sort of recap The Bachelorette, Episode 2. Or “The Amazing Race To Be The Next Bachelor”.

This is late because after I watched the show last night I was so exhausted from having to pay attention to the details (I actually took notes!  Like it was school!) that I fell asleep.   Or at least I went to bed.   Then I couldn’t sleep.   I kept worrying about stuff like, “What if when [...]

And now for more Answers To Questions You Didn’t Actually Ask Me.

Sometimes people look to Google for an awful lot.    For example, today’s question, which landed someone on my website instead of where they wanted to go, which was obviously 1900psychic.com (I made that up, don’t click through, I don’t know where you will land).
Would YOU ask a search engine this question?  Let’s hope not.   Because [...]

So then we got a new wading pool.

Oh, it’s a long story.    The upshot is that we bought a new wading pool and also that the word “upshot” is not used nearly as much as it should be.
I bought the new wading pool at Canadian Tire, which as you know is a store that I’ve boycotted for a decade but apparently going [...]

In which I sort of recap The Bachelorette, Episode 1.

Guess what today is?   That’s right, mes petites internets, it’s the season premiere of The Bachelorette.   And I am LIVE BLOGGING this life-changing event.    OK, fine, it’s not “life-changing”, per se.   And it’s not live, either, it’s on PVR.   But I am blogging it while I watch, which has to be the definition of LIVE [...]

Spuddling Along Gracefully, 7.

In case you’ve forgotten, and I’m sure you haven’t, this is where I list five good things that have graced my life such that it doesn’t sound like I’m constantly whining.   No one likes someone who whines constantly.   Although you still like me, right?   RIGHT?
1.  This is my first post on my new website [...]

Answers To Questions You Didn’t Actually Ask. Because I Don’t Want Your Searches to Be In Vain.

Seeing as no one on this site has ever asked me for advice and I feel like sharing information that I’m potentially making up while positing myself as an “expert”, I’ve decided to treat all Google searches that hit my page as questions that people want me personally to answer. Because I am [...]

If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, This Is Too Long To Be A Blog Post. Probably.

I’m just walking around in circles.

What? Who’s that?

Oh, it’s YOU!

HIIIIIII!

    

I live two lives. It’s the Gemini, people. There is something to astrology after all. Proof: I have two blogs.

I am cross-blogging today. That way, I feel like I’ve done a lot more than I have because it’s two two two posts in one. If you can’t live without a fresh blog post from me, here’s one about books and writing, complete with a picture of my feet, which if you [...]