• 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

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

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 [...]

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.

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.   [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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?

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Five Completely Random Things That I Feel Like Blogging About. Booyah.

1.  What is it with the word “booyah”?   And is that how you spell it?  It must be, because the spell checker says it’s correct.   Well, booyah.   What a completely ridiculous word, and yet also fun to say out loud.   Try to work it into your conversation at least ten times in one day and [...]

Five Thing Friday is Eating My Brain or Maybe I Have a Brain Wasting Disease such as Mad Cow or Maybe My Brain Is Actually Just Fine, Did You Ever Think Of That?

Oh, time.   What HAPPENS to you?   I go from five thing friday to… Five Thing Friday with nothing in-between.   Depressing!  The truth is that I’m finishing a book and so my next couple of weeks will be filled with putting every last precious word into the wee novel and less here, but you won’t mind [...]