• 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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The Bachelor, Episode 4: YOUR WORST FEAR.

Posted on January 25th, 2011 by Karen

My worst fear is that this show is never going to be cancelled and year after year, we’ll be forced to endure watching an ever-more-therapized Brad trying to find “love” in a mountain of silicone, which is sort of like finding a needle in a haystack but more fun, if you’re Brad, and you like [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode 3: My Dad Is Dead! OR My Dad Abandoned Me!

Posted on January 18th, 2011 by Karen

Is there open casting for this show?  Because I’m pretty sure there is and I’m pretty sure that what I mean by “open casting” is that at the end of every painful season of this craptacular “Train”wreck (ha ha ha, OH GOD I KILL ME) they say, “Do YOU want to be on this show?” [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode 2: Better late than never! Or, “The One I Didn’t Really Watch.”

Posted on January 15th, 2011 by Karen

I’m going to be honest here because, hey, I am nothing but a truth teller.   But if I wasn’t, then that would be a lie!  And that would mean that I was a liar!  But if I said I told the truth and I was lying, then that would be as true as if [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode One: Harbinger of Doom.

Posted on January 4th, 2011 by Karen

It is obviously the end of the world because I sat down with great glee to watch the opening episode of the eleventy-billionth season of The Bachelor.   It’s the “glee” part that worries me.   Why does watching some idiot look for love on TV make me so happy?   The premise of the [...]

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Blowing off the dust.

Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Karen

Well, HELLO there, little spuddlets!   It’s time to dust off the old blog once again because The Bachelor, season God Knows What, starts on Monday and I’ll have to remember my passwords and how to use WordPress in time to closely analyze Brad Womack and ask again and again, “WTF?”   Exciting, isn’t it? [...]

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