Hauling Water: Reflections on Making a Home in the North Woods

by Becca Brin Manlove, Sharon Brin Hathaway (Illustrator)

Overview

Hauling Water is an award-winning collection of little love stories - love for the land, love between a man and woman, love of children and family, love for all the beings that share the neighborhood (even the occasional annoying bear in the garbage), and eventually love for a life well lived. The freshness of maple sap plunking into pails, the chill of a strong wind at an ice fishing hole, the satisfaction of a Thanksgiving dinner tradition, dismayed thoughts at a lightning-struck pine, the camaraderie of the sauna, and much more are shared with humor, warmth, and respect for wild places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780981930749
Publisher:	Raven Productions
Publication date:	05/02/2011
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Becca Brin Manlove's kids have mostly forgiven her for being a tree-hugging writer. She continues to make her home in the woods. In the summer, she practices gardening and makes green tomato salsa (short growing season), and the rest of the year she skijors behind her dog, Psycho Mantis. Becca hasn't quit her day job, but she is completing her next manuscript, SWEET DREAMS, MICHAEL, a combination grief, dream, and joy journal based on her experiences in the year following the death of her husband. She sees it as a way of bringing tea, toast and solace to others as they find their way through grief. She enjoyed working with illustrator Sharon Hathaway, one of her three sisters (they have a brother, too) on her first book, HAULING WATER.