A number of years ago, my wife, Jan, made a series of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls sewing them with hearts and the names of the recipients for our daughters. Then she added the grandchildren and a son-in-law, a family friend and me. When she did mine, she clothed him in my cargo pants and a ponytail and thus he became "Raggedy Me". I started using him in a new series of paintings of which I have completed eight. There will be many more.