• 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.

    The Bun's Dance Show

    The Bun's Dance Show

    The Bun's Dance Show

    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

  • Categories

And now, for more ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU DIDN’T ACTUALLY ASK.

Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Karen

People hit this site for all sorts of reasons, most having to do with how Wes is a douchebag and Jake is vertically challenged.   Seriously, the most frequent hit on this site for a while as “How much does Jillian Harris weigh?” You are truly my peeps, because you love to hate [...]

Filed under: Answers To Questions You Didn't Actually Ask | No Comments »

And now for more…. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU DIDN’T ACTUALLY ASK ME. The Hallowe’en Edition.

Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Karen

I was going to write a post called “Twitter is My Paxil” and then I sat down to do it and glanced at the search terms to land on this blog lately from Google and one of them was “What meat products are safe from vampires?” And being a WORLD CLASS EXPERT ON VAMPIRES*, [...]

Filed under: Answers To Questions You Didn't Actually Ask | No Comments »

Bonus Post: Another Answer to a Question You Didn’t Actually Ask. About — what else? — BACON.

Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Karen

If you do not know me in real life or on Twitter or Facebook or from my books, you probably landed on this site by searching either “Where did Jillian Harris get those red boots?” (Answer:  I have no idea.) or, more probably, “Is it safe to eat raw bacon?” (Answer:  No.)   Today I am [...]

Filed under: Answers To Questions You Didn't Actually Ask | 5 Comments »

And now for more Answers To Questions You Didn’t Actually Ask Me.

Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Karen

Sometimes people look to Google for an awful lot.    For example, today’s question, which landed someone on my website instead of where they wanted to go, which was obviously 1900psychic.com (I made that up, don’t click through, I don’t know where you will land).
Would YOU ask a search engine this question?  Let’s hope not.   Because [...]

Filed under: Answers To Questions You Didn't Actually Ask | No Comments »

Answers To Questions You Didn’t Actually Ask. Because I Don’t Want Your Searches to Be In Vain.

Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Karen

Seeing as no one on this site has ever asked me for advice and I feel like sharing information that I’m potentially making up while positing myself as an “expert”, I’ve decided to treat all Google searches that hit my page as questions that people want me personally to answer. Because I am [...]

Filed under: Answers To Questions You Didn't Actually Ask | 2 Comments »