• 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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As it turns out, I’m afraid of heights. I mean, like real, full on, can’t breathe, OMG am gonna die AFRAID.

The thing with a lifelong fear of heights is that as a person who is afraid of heights, you tend to avoid heights, period, and then you lose touch with EXACTLY HOW AFRAID YOU ARE.   If “you” are “me”, that is.  You forget.   You think — because you are an idiot — that [...]

Welly, welly, well, well.

Here’s the thing:  I am trying not to be so busy.   I am always so busy (especially now that I’m babysitter-free due to The Single Most Ridiculous Teen Angst Drama in the History of The Planet Earth) and as a result, I run around feeling all the time like I’m LATE (this is because [...]

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

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 [...]

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.   [...]

Creak, creak. Happy New Year! Etc.

I’m a bit rusty.   That’s the creaking.   Get it?    OH, SO FUNNY.   Except not.   AM OUT OF PRACTICE.
The thing with blogging is that it’s like exercising and if you don’t do it every day, it starts to seem impossible and HAS actually been impossible in the last week or two [...]

A Post about Vanity and also about being Friend Dumped, which really sucks, even when you are not 12.

So I was recently Friend Dumped.   (I know!   WHAT THE H-E-DOUBLE-HOCKEY-STICKS?)  It was a subtle dumping and I did not see it coming.   I think I am working through the seven stages of grief about it, if the seven stages include obsessing about it, being mystified, and then worried and then — [...]

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

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 [...]

My Stomach is Making Horrible Noises. Plus, Waiting For The Phone to Ring Rules! Except It Does Not Rule.

Yesterday, Clayton took the kids to his mum’s such that I could spend Saturday polishing my toenails and watching Project Runway writing one of the five books that I’m currently writing.   I know I mention this all the time, but that’s because I also am baffled about why I’m writing five books at [...]

Dan Brown, Freemasons, Vampires, Alzheimers, Menopause, and some Stuff About Me.

This post is not really entirely about Dan Brown.   Sorry.   It was a trick!  To make you look!   I know nothing about Dan Brown and/or Freemasons, except that I do know that his book sold one million copies on its first day because this was retweeted one million times on my Twitter stream yesterday and [...]

Oh Hai Universe, Thank You For Pooping On My Head.

So in the last little while, I’ve been thinking about karma and luck and all other impossible-to-measure and are-they-really-real things that we — meaning “I” — use to provide rationale for why my life is either going swimmingly thank you very much or whether it’s repeatedly stabbing me with a sharp pin in the eyelid.
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