• 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 8: Wait, WHY is he in New York?

Posted on February 22nd, 2011 by Karen

It’s sometimes amazing to me how fast the bachelor comes and goes from my TV.  One minute, there he is, nervously snuffling in front of multiple limos full of “ladies” and the next, he is on one knee, lying about some kind of eternal love bullshit that no one in the world believes except for [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode 7: The One I Forgot To Post.

Posted on February 16th, 2011 by Karen

Oh, man.   ABC, you are KILLING ME THIS SEASON.   Let’s not even talk abut this episode, let’s talk instead about how Brad and Wes were apparently sharing a girlfriend.  Because US Magazine (or someone) says that she and Brad were together (off and on!) for eight years, and yet she and Wes were [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode 6. Or 7. I’m not sure anymore, but they were in Costa Rica.

Posted on February 9th, 2011 by Karen

I know I’m a day late to posting this but that is because it took me a day to absorb and then forget in its entirety this episode of The Bachelor.   I was very nearly EXCITED about it, which is a good indication of my current state of mental (ill) health because COSTA RICA [...]

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The Bachelor, Episode 5: It’s My Stupid Reality Show And I’ll Cry If I Want To.

Posted on February 1st, 2011 by Karen

My battery only has 5% left, which I will use as a benchmark for the amount of time I’m willing to spend typing about this travesty of a season in which Brad snivels and whines about finding love and women weep to get his attention.   Every week I see this show, I lose more [...]

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