• 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.

    Parksville, Day 3

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    Thetis Lake, Thursday

    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

Long Weekend UnCamping, the UnCatholics go to Catholic School, and MY BRAIN IS A PARAGRAPH.

Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by Karen

We are UnCamping this weekend because we forgot to book a campsite in a timely manner and have nowhere to camp, which is a relief to me because we got the camper yesterday from where it is stored at my sister’s house (because in our municipality you are actually banished if you store a camper [...]

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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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I AM VERY BUSY AND IMPORTANT.

Posted on April 15th, 2010 by Karen

I have a blog?  WHA_HUH?  When did this happen?   Oh, I kid.   Sort of.   I mean, my memory is failing at a frightening rate.   But I do remember that I have a blog, I’m lying when I imply that I forget.   What happens is this: 1.  I think, “I have [...]

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People Talking, People Laughing, A Man Selling Ice Cream.

Posted on March 27th, 2010 by Karen

Guess what song is in my head?   If you can’t guess, that means you are young.   Enjoy your youth.   Before you know it, you are humming lyrics that no one around you recognizes.   Because you are old.   Irrelevant.   Past your prime. So the other day I was on one [...]

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This Blog Post is Titled: Miscellaneous.

Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Karen

1.   When L’Oreal introduced its new foundation that came with a little roller, meant to end the horror which was “streaked foundation” that was sweeping the nation like a plague of zombies, I laughed and said, “That’s brilliant!  Create a problem that doesn’t exist and then fix it!   What idiots!  They think we [...]

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