• 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.







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  • 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.

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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 covet stuff, which is a sin no doubt, so it’s a good thing I’m not religious.

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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Five Thing Friday: It’s JCrew EXTRA 30 Time! The Five Best Deals, According To Me.

Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Karen

I know it is not Friday, so stop being such stickler for precision dating.  It’s people like you that make the trains run on time and such forth.   Well, good for you.   Certainly it’s nothing to do with the likes of me, who actually have to look at a calendar to ascertain what [...]

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Bless me, Internetz, for I have some stuff to confess. Five things. Because I feel like everything on this blog needs to be grouped in Fives.

Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Karen

1.  I took a long break over Christmas in which I did not do a SINGLE WORD of writing.   Not a bit.   I shopped.   I wrapped.   I procrastinated.   I did not write.    AND NOW I AM REFRESHED!    Damn it, I am.   Totally refreshed.   Sort of.   [...]

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Five Thing Friday! A Day Late and A Dollar Short.

Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Karen

It’s time once again to return to our regularly scheduled programming, which is to say that it’s time for me to remember to do Five Thing Friday a day late and in a rush.    It’s January, which means that it’s time to shake off the sloth-like habits I developed over Christmas break and get [...]

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FIVE THINGS TO BUY FOR YOUR WIFE FOR CHRISTMAS SO YOU CAN STOP PANICKING ALREADY EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE NOW RUNNING OUT OF TIME.

Posted on December 12th, 2009 by Karen

Well, looky here, it’s our annual, helpful Christmas gift-buying feature, brought to you entirely by ME. No sponsors are even slightly interested in my list although I hear that Gilette is looking for a new face for their razors. That sounded wrong (it was really just a dumb Tiger Woods reference [...]

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NaNoWriMo, Baby. I Share Five Components Of My Book-To-Be. Steal It At Your Own Risk. Karma’s A Bitch, Dude. This Title Contains Both “Baby” and “Dude”. Who Am I?

Posted on October 24th, 2009 by Karen

It’s time once again for NaNoWriMo, which is just November in a fancy costume and with coffee mugs and t-shirts you can buy to validate your experience. (I bought the coffee mug, yes I did.) If you are me and are panicking and poor, you pretty much NaNoWriMo every month because Fear [...]

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I will tell you five things about rabbits. Because it’s Five-Thing Friday! Only It’s Tuesday. I Keep Telling You: If You Are Going to be A Stickler For Timeliness, You Will Not Find It Here.

Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Karen

How can I come up with five things to say about rabbits, you ask?   EASY.   That’s how.   I have more than five.   I could probably, under pressure, come up with maybe even SIX.   Six things about rabbits.   Hold on to your hats or whatever you want to hold on [...]

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It’s Saturday, Which Means It’s Time Once Again For Five Thing Friday. What Is Wrong With That Statement? Bad Grammar? Can’t Figure It Out, It Just Doesn’t Look Right. Hmmm.

Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by Karen

Five things, five things.   How about FIVE LISTS OF FIVE THINGS?   That’s right, it’s TWENTY FIVE THINGS.   Holy hell.    It’s like I’m giving you my SOUL except it’s much smaller than that and easier to write down.   Or bigger.   I mean, how big is a soul?  As big as a dime?  Or bigger, like a [...]

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I Confess: Five Things You Need To Know, but Not Really “Need” and Maybe Don’t Even “Want”.

Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Karen

Once again I’ve hit a wall.   Not literally.   If I literally hit a wall, I’d probably break — at a minimum — all the bones in my hand.   I’m “lucky” like that.   Not that I have brittle bones, but that I have bad luck.   Not REALLY BAD LUCK, like, you know, a fatal disease, but [...]

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