Ronald D. Giles

Below is the Ryan Budget Plan stated without any hyperbole, emotive adjectives or spin: The latest (March, 2012) full-scale version of th...

HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR NEW ASPHALT DRIVEWAY We ask that you keep car traffic off your driveway for at least 3 days. If temperatures are r...

Yesterday, I posted a portion of my short story, "Locusts and Wild Honey," in which two of the storylines were revealed.  ...

I have begun to write after a long interval of other activities. The current effort is a collection of short stories tentatively titled, ...

In a scene from my third book, “Great Heats,” the ancient Mound Builders of Ohio erect a tall pole, simulating a large sundial, to give them...

  This Sunday evening, Joan and I have the privilege of presenting a Hymns program at a church celebrating their 150th Anniversary. Trinit...

From 1974 - 1977, I was Executive Producer of the Scripps-Howard station in Cincinnati, Ohio, WCPO-TV.  Our anchorman, Al Schottlekotte was ...

 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...