Posted on March 27th, 2010 by Karen
Guess what song is in my head? If you can’t guess, that means you are young. Enjoy your youth. Before you know it, you are humming lyrics that no one around you recognizes. Because you are old. Irrelevant. Past your prime. So the other day I was on one [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Karen
1. I was sitting on the couch just now, doing what I do — which alternates between obsessively checking my e-mail to see if anyone is interested in validating me today, reading about how Jake Pavelka was on The Bachelor for the $500,000 and was (bad) acting the whole time (raise your hand if you’re [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Karen
1. When L’Oreal introduced its new foundation that came with a little roller, meant to end the horror which was “streaked foundation” that was sweeping the nation like a plague of zombies, I laughed and said, “That’s brilliant! Create a problem that doesn’t exist and then fix it! What idiots! They think we [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Karen
For the last little while, technically it will be a year in July, I’ve been working again. And by “working”, I mean “writing” because that is the only work I know how to do. I am between agents but I did sell my own WIP to a publisher and it will be out [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Karen
Why yes, that IS me. Aren’t I a little chunk of cuteness?
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Karen
I know you probably come to this blog because you genuinely care how tall Jake Pavelka is (short!) and how much Jillian Harris weighs (not much!) and now you’re all, “Wha-huh?” because I’m talking a lot about whales in captivity in the light of what just happened at Seaworld and generally I get a bit [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2010 by Karen
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Karen
I haven’t done a covet post for a while so I thought I’d do one now. Because why not? There are at least ten things I SHOULD be doing so blogging a random “shopping” list of my wants seems like a totally appropriate use of time. My excuse is that I actually have [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Karen
The thing with a lifelong fear of heights is that as a person who is afraid of heights, you tend to avoid heights, period, and then you lose touch with EXACTLY HOW AFRAID YOU ARE. If “you” are “me”, that is. You forget. You think — because you are an idiot — that [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Karen
Seaworld spokespeople are now saying that perhaps they won’t use “Tilly” in any more performance-based shows. This is what we call “spin”. They are facing a lot of pressure from activist groups. They are going to play the middle ground until this story drops out of the news. Then Tilly will perform [...]
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