• 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.

    Parksville, Day 3

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    More Photos

  • 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.

  • I Flock

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I got a LensBaby 2.0 and I have no idea how to use it. But! It’s fun.

Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Karen

My camera has been in the shop for a month because I dropped it in January at Butterfly World on the hard concrete bathroom floor and ever since, apart from the fact that bits of it were broken, it overexposed everything.  I have no idea how the inner-workings of my camera work or don’t work [...]

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Let’s just call it Five Thing Friday.

Posted on April 24th, 2010 by Karen

Let’s face it, I covet stuff.   And nothing starts my Saturday (writing day!) off better than finding a bunch of stuff to covet on these here interwebz and then telling myself that if I finish this book or that book or, you know, sell something (Not my job anymore!  Now the job of my [...]

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I AM VERY BUSY AND IMPORTANT.

Posted on April 15th, 2010 by Karen

I have a blog?  WHA_HUH?  When did this happen?   Oh, I kid.   Sort of.   I mean, my memory is failing at a frightening rate.   But I do remember that I have a blog, I’m lying when I imply that I forget.   What happens is this: 1.  I think, “I have [...]

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