The height of dorkiness
(This blog first appeared in May 2009 when I saw the first in the rebooted Star Trek series. I'm rerunning it in honor of Leonard Nimoy,...
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KRISTAN HIGGINS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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Kristan Higgins
Feb 22, 2015
Maria the CNA
Sixteen years ago and change, I was in the hospital having my son, and I was wicked, wicked sick. Sick enough to be rushed into the OR in...
Kristan Higgins
Feb 17, 2015
Plotmonkeying around
I didn’t blog this weekend. I’m sorry! I was too busy rolling around on a floor, laughing till my teeth chattered. A plotting weekend...
Kristan Higgins
Feb 8, 2015
And good morning to you, too!
I’m a vivid dreamer. Sometimes, that’s a blessing—Robert Downey Jr. and I have had several very romantic dates in the ether world, and...
Kristan Higgins
Feb 1, 2015
Weekend wanderings
One of the very best parts of writing books is visiting the location where my stories are set. The Blue Heron series is set in a...
Kristan Higgins
Jan 25, 2015
A language all our own
Like most families, we have words that aren’t officially recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary. Most of them came from the kids’...
Kristan Higgins
Jan 18, 2015
Car Talk
As an American, I love driving. I don’t like the five minute-trips to and from Dearest’s school, but I love going somewhere far. Today,...
Kristan Higgins
Jan 11, 2015
Motherboy
Picture me, walking Dearest Son down our long, long driveway. It’s a dark winter morning, and some of our best talks happen during this...
Kristan Higgins
Dec 20, 2014
One dark night long ago…
...Santa Claus woke me up. I’m serious. I was seven or eight years old, and we were in our new house, the one where I’d spend the rest of...
Kristan Higgins
Dec 14, 2014
Observations from a happy marriage
The flowers McIrish brought me today! I don’t know much about how to make a happy marriage. All I know is how to make my marriage happy,...
Kristan Higgins
Dec 10, 2014
Sophie
Until I became an author, I rarely had a professional manicure. I had my nails done for my wedding, I think. Otherwise, nah. I’m a...
Kristan Higgins
Nov 30, 2014
My other true love
I had one of those making-out-with-my-pillow moments the other day. I live for these. No, I do! First of all, my pillow is very special...
Kristan Higgins
Nov 23, 2014
A Connecticut Yankee in Milan & Paris
Okay, here’s the thing. Women in Milan dress incredibly well. Better than we American chicks can ever pull off, I think, and that takes...
Kristan Higgins
Nov 16, 2014
Venezia!
Random thoughts on my new favorite city... There is no such thing as an Italian speaking in a monotone. Everything sounds terribly...
Kristan Higgins
Nov 10, 2014
Don’t worry. Be happy.
Worry is the song of my people. We’re Hungarian. And Catholic. That means I'm twice blessed in the worry department. So this week, I took...
Kristan Higgins
Nov 3, 2014
Signs
Sometimes, you have a friend who’s always got your back, even if you don’t hear from them for a while, or see them too often. I have a...
Kristan Higgins
Oct 26, 2014
A ghost story
Once upon a time, my parents bought a little house on the Cape. It was an investment; we had our family house already, but Dad figured...
Kristan Higgins
Oct 19, 2014
Turn your head and cough
I had a doctor’s appointment this week, which as you know is thrilling for me. I feel so special. I got weighed (no comment) and...
Kristan Higgins
Oct 12, 2014
On the road
You might know that I was on book tour this week, out in the heartland. My publisher hired a car service to shuttle me to and from the...
Kristan Higgins
Sep 28, 2014
Family
It’s been all about family this week, gang. McIrish came back from a very emotional ceremony for fallen firefighters—he went to represent...
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