a few small things.

gifts for yourself and others.

little apocalypses

Since receiving an advance copy of Kaitlyn Teer’s Little Apocalypses a number of weeks ago, this beautiful book has quickly and officially risen to my number one recommendation for a book to offer other parents—new and seasoned alike. Little Apocalypses is a series of thoughtful, introspective, painstakingly researched essays about parenting in the climate crisis. Never scolding or sanctimonious, reading it feels like a conversation with your most well-read friend on all of the subjects that might be taking up real estate in a brain overtaxed with climate or parenting anxiety. Where there’s a question, Kaitlyn finds answers—and usually many of them—in the wise words of so many great thinkers. It’s impossible to read this book and not feel grateful for Kaitlyn’s openhanded distillation of their work. Maybe no surprise, the essay “Mother of All Messes,” which grapples with the fraught notion of ethical consumerism, is a personal favorite, but the whole book is smart, generous, and galvanizing. Really, it’s precisely what the climate movement, and all of us, needs most of all. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Little Apocalypses is available now for preorder and will be in bookstores everywhere on April 14.