Hilary Higgenbottom

Hilary Higgenbottom is the single mother of Bessie and Ben. She owns and operates a coffee shop called Hilary's Café, which sells cupcakes, cookies and other baked goods in addition to the caffeinated beverages.

Little is known of Hilary's past, except for the fact that she is a longtime motorcycle rider ("Boston Beean"), was a goat herder in Berlin ("Apoxalypse Now") and that in "Name Shame" she recounts how Bessie's middle name became Kajolica: she met a medicine man from Santa Fe while pregnant with her daughter, and he wrote it in the sand for her to see. She states it has a "magical" meaning, but has since forgotten what it is.