Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, I endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia along with my newborn, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed me in the hospital, dehydrated and separated from my nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires and floods. This compelled me to write. For details, see: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/hot-mess (also available as an audiobook)