• 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

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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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The Bachelor, Episode 1: Ben Goes To The Babe (Boob) Bar.

I am sorry, Bachelor-loving peeps but I actually forgot to record the first episode of the new gripping season of The Bachelor: How Long Will They Stay Together After The Credits Roll? So I missed the first hour. Which isn’t such a bad thing because honestly, watching the girls traipsing out of the limo in [...]

The Bachelor: The End.

And now, finally, it’s over.  THANKS BE TO THE GODZ AND STUFF.   I don’t know why I watch this, I really don’t, and at the end of the season, I always feel like having a party to celebrate, not to celebrate Brad’s Big Love but to celebrate the fact I don’t have to see [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 9: Lions, Tigers and Boobs, Oh my!

Are we already at the overnight dates?  Time flies on this show, but that is because it is only 11 weeks long and one of the weeks is that stupid, throw away week in which contestants who were kicked off whine about how Brad never really really really KNEW them, like, you know?   Which [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 8: Wait, WHY is he in New York?

It’s sometimes amazing to me how fast the bachelor comes and goes from my TV.  One minute, there he is, nervously snuffling in front of multiple limos full of “ladies” and the next, he is on one knee, lying about some kind of eternal love bullshit that no one in the world believes except for [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 6. Or 7. I’m not sure anymore, but they were in Costa Rica.

I know I’m a day late to posting this but that is because it took me a day to absorb and then forget in its entirety this episode of The Bachelor.   I was very nearly EXCITED about it, which is a good indication of my current state of mental (ill) health because COSTA RICA [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 5: It’s My Stupid Reality Show And I’ll Cry If I Want To.

My battery only has 5% left, which I will use as a benchmark for the amount of time I’m willing to spend typing about this travesty of a season in which Brad snivels and whines about finding love and women weep to get his attention.   Every week I see this show, I lose more [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 4: YOUR WORST FEAR.

My worst fear is that this show is never going to be cancelled and year after year, we’ll be forced to endure watching an ever-more-therapized Brad trying to find “love” in a mountain of silicone, which is sort of like finding a needle in a haystack but more fun, if you’re Brad, and you like [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 3: My Dad Is Dead! OR My Dad Abandoned Me!

Is there open casting for this show?  Because I’m pretty sure there is and I’m pretty sure that what I mean by “open casting” is that at the end of every painful season of this craptacular “Train”wreck (ha ha ha, OH GOD I KILL ME) they say, “Do YOU want to be on this show?” [...]

The Bachelor, Episode 2: Better late than never! Or, “The One I Didn’t Really Watch.”

I’m going to be honest here because, hey, I am nothing but a truth teller.   But if I wasn’t, then that would be a lie!  And that would mean that I was a liar!  But if I said I told the truth and I was lying, then that would be as true as if [...]

The Bachelor, Episode One: Harbinger of Doom.

It is obviously the end of the world because I sat down with great glee to watch the opening episode of the eleventy-billionth season of The Bachelor.   It’s the “glee” part that worries me.   Why does watching some idiot look for love on TV make me so happy?   The premise of the [...]