Karen Healey | Chocolate in the Fruit Bowl

Hello internets! Are you having a lovely summer/winter [delete whichever is inappropriate]? I sure am. I have been having a nice relaxing break of learning how to do front kicks and back...

In less than a day I had been harassed, enchanted, shouted at, cried on, and clawed. I’d been cold, scared, dirty, exhausted, hungry, and miserable. And up until now, I’d been...

Karen Healey is a young adult author from New Zealand, currently based in Australia. Her first book, Guardian of the Dead, debuts April 1st, 2010. She likes World of Warcraft, movies about...

Events and Such

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Guardian of the Dead

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About Karen

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Jul 20, 2010

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Infinitus, Part the First

I was promised monsoon season in Tucson. Robyn was all like, “Oh, the skies will open and we’ll be drenched and it will make that sound on the roof you like so much,” and I was all, “Hurrah! For I do not think I can manage six weeks in Tucson in the summer without rain!” It didn’t rain. Robyn has never seen a monsoon season so incalcitrant....

Jul 5, 2010

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Local Customs

Yesterday I celebrated the cute American holiday of Independence Day, which takes place every July 4th. Robyn and Jimmy don’t have an American flag at home, because they are unpatriotic! So I grew one in a jar. I realise that most of my readers will be entirely ignorant of this holiday, which receives little world-wide press compared to more dramatic July events like St...