• 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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Some days are slippy, other days sloppy.

Posted on May 12th, 2010 by Karen

I was driving along yesterday eating jellybeans, as one does when one is driving, when all of a sudden, I choked.  On a jellybean.   Among the things I didn’t do were a) stop or b) die.   I kept choking until I was coughing so hard that I thought for sure I was going [...]

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This is a post about Costco, and also about the LUMPZ. Sort of like a two-for-one deal.

Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Karen

I went to Costco yesterday with my parents because they have a membership and I am far far far too cheap to buy my own, and also because shopping with my parents makes me feel young again as though I am too young to be able to shop for real grown up items on my [...]

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So Then We Got the H1N1 Vaccination.

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Karen

I deliberated long and hard about whether or not to immunize the kids (and me) against H1N1. The vaccine has had only limited testing, no matter how the government wants to frame it up, they still just don’t know about long term effects. Then some more kids died from [...]

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Twitter is My Paxil! Social Networking is a Blip! Spoof Sites are the New Blogs! One Of Those Statements is Ridiculous!

Posted on November 1st, 2009 by Karen

So a long time ago, my man came home all excited about a job he was planning to take that involved social networking. I was floored. “It’s a blip!” I shouted. “Social networking will never last! It’s a job with no future! We’ll starve to [...]

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Dear Mole, thanks I guess.

Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Karen

Dear Mole That I Had Removed Last Friday,
Look, I’m sorry I had you cut out of my body in a disgusting way.    Believe me, it was grosser for me than it was for you.   I had to a) SEE it (er, you) and b) four stitches.   The place where you once were is still uncomfortable [...]

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Warning: This Post Contains Vomit. Do not read this post if you are eating, if you’ve just eaten and/or if puke stories make you puke.

Posted on August 8th, 2009 by Karen

So I was going to type out this whole story and then I thought, no, why would I?  I’ve told this story already, I’ll just post the ACTUAL TRANSCRIPT because I know how you like them and besides, it’s probably only slightly funny when it’s fresh.   The story, I mean.   Not the puke.   Enjoy!   Don’t [...]

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A little post I like to call, “Where I live, your driveway is not your own.” Or “Holy hell, that hurts”. It’s really two posts in one! So it’s sort of your lucky day! If that can be considered lucky! And I doubt that it could!

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Karen

You know what sucks? I will tell you: Pain. Pain sucks. It does! I know, who’d have thunk it? I’m just here to help spread the news.
Here’s my story: I woke up yesterday morning with that funny little chest pain that you [...]

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Be Still My Beating Heart, Except by “Be Still” I mean, “Keep Beating, Preferably In A Nice, Even, Orderly Way”.

Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Karen

On Tuesday morning at the insanely early hour of 7:15, I went to the hospital for a heart test that I’ve had probably half a dozen times since I was diagnosed with Mitral Valve Prolapse as a child.   The test is called an echocardiogram and if you’ve had one or have ever watched ER or [...]

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Today’s Post is a Public Service Announcement about Skin Cancer and Probably Not Full of Belly Laughs, Just So You Know Up Front.

Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Karen

And now it’s… Public Service Announcement Saturday!   Except this will not be a regular feature because I couldn’t possibly think of something to say in terms of PSAs once a week, and besides Saturday is Writing Blog Day which I haven’t done yet but I HAVE achieved the first step towards that, which is to [...]

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