Of course there have been times when I have wondered if we did do the right thing in moving to an island. If it was fair to Anne and Joan. If it was fair to me. Once I asked Don and he said:
“Guiding children through adolescence is no joyride no matter where you live. At least here on Vashon we had something to take our minds off it. Fun things such as sawing wood or cleaning out the storm sewers.”
Then I foolishly said, “And how do you think it has been for us? For instance, how do you think I compare to other women my age?”
Giving me a long, fond husbandly look, Don said, “Well, you don’t look as tired as you did yesterday.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BETTY MACDONALD was born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard in Boulder, Colorado, on 26 March 1908. She married Robert Heskett in 1927 and settled on a forty-acre chicken farm near Chimacum, Washington. Her experiences on the farm became the subject of her first book, The Egg and I (1945), which sold over a million copies in the year following publication, was made into a film starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, and spawned the successful series of “Ma and Pa Kettle” films. In addition to Onions in the Stew, which was originally published in 1954, her other books include The Plague and I (1948) and Anybody Can Do Anything (1950). She died in Seattle on 7 February 1958.
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ONIONS IN THE STEW. A COMMON READER EDITION published 1998 by The Akadine Press, Inc., by arrangement with Joan MacDonald Keil and Anne Elizabeth Canham. Copyright © 1954, 1955 by Betty MacDonald. Copyright renewed © 1982, 1983 by Joan MacDonald Keil and Anne Elizabeth Canham. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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