Ronald D. Giles

Soon, I will be traveling back to Scioto County, Ohio, where I was born.  I will visit my Uncle as well as sing at my cousin’s Ball Park – T...

In honor of Father's Day, some quotations on the matter: Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydi...

In my novel, "Cottonwood Pass," a rogue billionaire attempts to establish a new form of government in the United States by hasteni...

While Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska, she gave birth to a son, her fifth child. It was known ahead of time that he would be a Downs Synd...

Today is American Poet, Allen Ginsberg's birthday. He was born in New Jersey in 1926 and lived mostly in San Francisco until 1997. He...

How many ways can you interpret this? . At this time of the year when we are planting our gardens, planting them in straight lines seems the...

Portsmouth – an overnight tourist destination? Yes, I believe it can be! Experience tells me that to become an overnight destination, a loca...

After a journey that began in 2009, my third book, "Great Heats" is now available on Amazon.com. In a couple of weeks, it will hit...

Forty-five years. February 19, 1966 -- Millvale Pa. Christ Lutheran Church. Joan and I exchanged wedding vows. We had met four years earlier...

Last Sunday, Joes American Restaurant in New Boston, Ohio, closed. It was a landmark in this proud little village -- romances flourished and...

Blue Laws have been on the books since Puritan Days in New England, probably starting out as a way of enforcing the commandment to keep the ...

In the agony of re-reading my words for the umpteenth time, I kept questioning this word or that punctuation or that phrase. But finally aft...

From "The Writer's Almanac" Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so ...

Anticipating the mundane, Monday task of taking out the garbage, I went outside the garage on a lazy-late Sunday afternoon. The moisture-hea...

I will stay awake tonight. I Will stay awake tonight. I'm going to do my best to be awake one more time to hear ... Should old acqu...

"Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." This poem (full vers...

Ever wonder what a Carol is? Or what "Nowell" ("Noel") means? Or what many people think is the most often piece of music...

By the time Christmas rolls around, will it be anti-climactic? Will it be just another day of "Ho,Ho,Ho" and Burl Ives singing ...

December 1, 1977 -- the launch of QUBE, the first interactive TV experiment in Columbus, Ohio, by Warner Cable. -- and I was there, 33 years...

On the Friday after Thanksgiving each year, we have a Wine tasting. We also invite to the table the Grand Children and non-wine drinking adu...