Monthly Archives: March 2006


Straddling the Atlantic

Staddling the Atlantic or How I got to Where I am At. I was born,in Dublin, Texas in 1949, along with my identical twin brother, Lynn Monroe, who past away the day after our birth. I spent most of my childhood days in Dublin, and Erath County. Then in 1960, our Family moved South, about […]

Our True Story, Daddy’s Part

Our True Story, Daddy’s Part This story is one of two, which Aunt Mary wrote down from a conversations she had with her Mother, Faustina Cline Ragland, and her Father, George Wallace Ragland. She typed both of the stories, drew some nice covers, and then stapled all the pages together. Its title is “Our True […]

One of My Dad’s Great Barbecues

  Barbecue is a meal, or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a grill. The words originated in the mid 17th century : from Spanish ” barbacoa “. The original sense of the word, meant some sort of wooden […]

Just A Few Things I Like

Just A Few Things I Like It has to go with out saying I like Texas the most. With Texas it goes without saying you like Willie Nelson, but there are a few other things, which I have stuck with over the years, and would like to share them with you all. I will try […]