• 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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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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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 of [...]

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You know what sucks? Bad customer service. That’s right, it sucks.

Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Karen

So there I was in Zellers buying more clothes for The Birdy who outgrows things overnight.   Things I’ve bought her so recently they still have those little plastic thingies attached are suddenly too small.  What HAPPENED?  I don’t know.   She lives on pink milk and vitamins, so I blame the growth hormones perpetrated on the [...]

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

Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Karen

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.
To [...]

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So then there was the preschool picnic.

Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Karen

The night before the preschool picnic, it rained so hard that I couldn’t sleep.   Secretly, I was relieved.   Because rain meant NO PICNIC.   And I’m mean like that and also socially anxious and more than a little socially inept.   Any kind of social event like a school picnic gives me hives because it’s just another [...]

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On Camping. Plus! Bonus! Pictures from Parksville. And Bears! Except Not Actually!

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by Karen

This is a quick post because I have a babysitter and I should be working, as in writing the actual book, but I need to write something that is not the book first because my writing muscle is rusty and sore and weak from taking a week off, if by a “week”, I mean “two [...]

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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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It’s what we doctors, in fact, call a ‘tiger’. Or The Meaning of ‘Fat Thin’.

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Karen

I think it’s possible that I’ve blogged about this before but I’m too lazy to go through my own archives to check.    It’s also possible that I just thought about blogging it but then blogged about The Bachelorette instead, which is also on tap for today or maybe tomorrow because it’s not like it’s particularly [...]

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