• 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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There’s a game I like to call, “Hunt the Barf.” Fun for the WHOLE FAMILY!

Posted on November 27th, 2009 by Karen

Every once in a while something happens to me that is gross and the VERY FIRST people I think of when this happens are YOU people, aren’t you so happy? Because this story is gross, and it also has no ending. It’s really a short story. I’ll have to [...]

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Dear Nanowrimo, I suck, but I really DO like the coffee cup. It’s so nice. Thank you. Oh, and I quit. Sort of.

Posted on November 14th, 2009 by Karen

As you all know, I was doing Nanowrimo and as you also know, I was mostly doing it for the coffee cup because I like it and it says AUTHOR on it and makes me feel like a valid AUTHOR when I’m desperately gulping caffeine from the AUTHOR cup while doing non-AUTHOR things such as [...]

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So Then We Got the H1N1 Vaccination.

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Karen

I deliberated long and hard about whether or not to immunize the kids (and me) against H1N1. The vaccine has had only limited testing, no matter how the government wants to frame it up, they still just don’t know about long term effects. Then some more kids died from [...]

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Twitter is My Paxil! Social Networking is a Blip! Spoof Sites are the New Blogs! One Of Those Statements is Ridiculous!

Posted on November 1st, 2009 by Karen

So a long time ago, my man came home all excited about a job he was planning to take that involved social networking. I was floored. “It’s a blip!” I shouted. “Social networking will never last! It’s a job with no future! We’ll starve to [...]

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