• 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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Silent Sunday and It Is Actually Sunday and This Is Actually Silent.

Posted on May 23rd, 2010 by Karen

    

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Because I learn nothing from experience, I bought a new pool.

Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Karen

I’m sure you all remember last year when Wading Pool Season began and I tried to siphon my previous year’s wading pool using a sawed off piece of garden hose and accidentally drank a big, giant Slurpee sized gulp of SLIME AND BACTERIA and HOLY HELL I’M NOT LYING WHEN I SAY THAT I CAN [...]

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In which I talk about the tragic loss of my friend.

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Karen

Last Saturday, my friend Martha Ralph was killed when a stolen Honda cut her off on the Malahat.   She was on a motorcycle driven by her long-time boyfriend, Larry Machnee.    They didn’t have a chance.   He died on the scene and she died later that day in hospital.
When I found out, I [...]

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It’s Not Five Things & It’s Not Friday, But Rather More Bachelorette Nonsense.

Posted on September 14th, 2009 by Karen

OK, I know The Bachelorette is long since over and no one should care anymore about these people, and frankly, I don’t much care about them either and you’d think I would, having spent so much time typing about them.   But I don’t.   And yet, I’m sort of lying.  Because whenever I see an article [...]

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When there aren’t enough words.

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Karen

Some terrible things have happened this week in the blogosphere, though these things happened in the real sphere, in real life. I feel both like I ought not to write about them because there are so many who were closer to these people and their losses that on one level, I feel like it’s [...]

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Spuddling along gracefully, Part 1.

Posted on January 18th, 2009 by Karen

It’s not my idea, it’s someone else’s, but I love it and it will force me to come here and write at least something, some small thing, every day.    Thanks, Schmutzie.
Five things, that’s all it is.    Five things that have graced my life.   Five good things. More info here.
Hey, we all need a [...]

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