Ronald D. Giles

 On October 2, a new book will be launched – an anthology of short stories by Chester County Authors, setting their stories in Chester Cou...

Listening to the minister Sunday morning, she read a passage from Romans: “ 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what...

The following is an excerpt from a new book I am writing tentatively titled "TV Stories," recalling many amusing, heartwarming a...

Some of you may know that Joan and I are involved in promoting the understanding of Hymns, the stories behind their writing, and encouraging...

I have enjoyed working with editors because in their picky, prickly way they make me a better writer. For example, I have almost stopped Em...

With the Industrial Revolution in progress, in order to find work, people moved from rural settings to close-by the factories in order to wa...

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...