About Me

Ronald Dunn is a husband of forty two years, is the father of two and has three grandchildren. He is the owner of a service company, and has been in business over thirty-two years. He wrote out a “bucket list” (things you want to do before you kick the bucket!) several years ago, and number one on his list was to write a book! The Wisdom of Solomon is the result!

What I read as a kid is kind of hazy, but I liked adventure stories,  the National Geographic, Boys Life (publication for Boy Scouts).  As I wrote in my book, I remember reading my great aunt and uncle's book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, probably at the age of 9-10.  I don't suppose that I really started reading science fiction until my early to mid 20's, with Issac Asimov being my favorite at that time.  That was also about the time that the original Star Trek series hit TV.

I grew up working in my great aunt's vegetable and flower gardens.  Just as in the farming I helped my dad with, you were able to see the fruits of your labor as the vegetables, flowers and wheat grew to maturity.  However, even in high school, I really had no idea what I wanted to do.

In my testing for college, I scored high in math and engineering principles, so I entered a small school (West Texas State College) in Canyon,Texas and started off as a pre-engineering major.  They did not offer a degree in engineering, so if I had stuck with it, I would have had to eventually transfer to another school offering the degree.  As it happened, calculus was a requirement during my sophomore year and it didn't take me long to realize that me and calculus did not mesh!  I finished my sophomore year and decided to work for awhile and determined where I was going with my education.

I went to work for a small greenhouse in Amarillo and really liked my work.  However, it didn't last long because I could not get along with the owner.  The month I spent there, however, whetted my appetite and I transferred to Texas Tech in the fall of 1963 to earn a BS in ornamental horticulture.  I graduated in June of 1967 and my first job was with a hybrid seed company in Chicago.  I loved the work, but couldn't take the cold, snowy winters.  I moved to Dallas in early 1968 and eventually wound up as the Superintendent of Parks for the City of Farmers Branch.  Nearly seven years of the red tape and bureaucracy associated with a municipality, had me doubting my chosen industry.  I began the process of looking for something else to do, but God led me to a man who wanted to start a landscape maintenance company to help defray the cost of maintaining his twenty-eight acre North Dallas estate!  He and I struck a deal and Metro Landscape Maintenance was born in January of 1978.  I bought him out in 1985 when he became ill.  Metro has been a great blessing to me and my family and it is my plan to continue operating it well up into my 70's.