• 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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I got a LensBaby 2.0 and I have no idea how to use it. But! It’s fun.

Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Karen

My camera has been in the shop for a month because I dropped it in January at Butterfly World on the hard concrete bathroom floor and ever since, apart from the fact that bits of it were broken, it overexposed everything.  I have no idea how the inner-workings of my camera work or don’t work [...]

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Silent Sunday. Yes, I KNOW it’s Tuesday. My bad.

Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Karen

So we went camping on Galiano.   I have a million pictures and I have uploaded these four because everything takes me forever and I was really busy this morning choosing products to give away on this site.   Stay tuned for more on that.   There’s been a lot of talk about giveaways on blogs lately and [...]

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Five Thing Friday + Silent Sunday + Grace in Small Things = This Post.

Posted on July 18th, 2009 by Karen

What? What happened? One minute, I was watching The Bachelorette (so it must have been Monday) and next I looked up and, BAM, it was Saturday. It must have been a busy week. Or not. I do not recall any of it. It’s [...]

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Silent Sunday, except it’s Thursday. Am I late or early? Does it matter? Because look how cute.

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Karen

    

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Silent-ish Sunday*: In Which I Let A Dozen Pretty Pictures From The Last Week Do The Talking.

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Karen

So then I was like, “Hey, I could do something different on every day of the week!  Structure roolz!”   Even though I hate structure and immediately get anxious when one is imposed on me.   Any kind of structure.   Like places I have to be at a certain time, for example.   Or things I have to [...]

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If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, This Is Too Long To Be A Blog Post. Probably.

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Karen

I’m just walking around in circles.

What? Who’s that?

Oh, it’s YOU!

HIIIIIII!

    

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I know! Go figure.

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Karen

A bunch of my picture links are broken. Why? Is the universe telling me that it’s creepy to post pictures of my kids? Anyway, I know the links are broken but I’m too tired to fix them because that’s how it is — by the time I sit down [...]

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Me and My Camera

Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Karen

I take a lot of pictures. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, like I’m not always IN the moment because I’m photographing the moment. Not guilty enough to stop, mind you, because damn it, they’ll appreciate it later! They will! OK, it’s for my own future enjoyment. [...]

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