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Featured: Read, Read Essay.     Hey Man, Now Man Song.   Take a Friend to Wife Song.      Between Storms, A Garden Essay     Back to the Land Fiction.     Summer Time Essay.    Backstroke, Breaststroke, Slowpoke Essay.     Headed Down the  Road Song      Dance of the Least Weasel  Essay.    A Decision June 24, 2026    Bad News Song.     Night Sweepers Song.     Storms along the Pete Mann Ditch Essay.     Story Fiction.    Pig Pig, Horse Horse Song. 

Poetry is Seeing Poem     I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song.    Everything's Gonna be All Right Song.     Raven and Coyote Fiction.     Hey, Hey, Hey Song     Coming Home to Me Song.    Going to the Country   song.     Heavy Equipment Song.  Winter Doldrums Song.     Breakfast in Moonlight  Essay.     A Writer Receives the Gift of Space Essay.     The Last Great Western Srock Drive Fiction.     Liberating Horses  Essay.      In the Graceful World of  Dreams  Poem and Reading     Ants and Grasshoppers Essay.     Devastation Blues Song.     Recipe for Ling Cod song.     I Ain't Courtin' You No More Song.  

 A Man Called Grandma Essay.     In the Beauty of Earth Itself Poem and Reading     Beavers Who Bought a Violin Essay.      Admonitions from the Wind Essay.     Culture Shock Essay.     When Juniper was Three Essay.    Get Up, Shiloh Essay.     Writing a New Poem and Reading 

Some Songs performed by Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus: Know Your Grower    Snowy Owl     Keep On Making Music   Trucker in Early Morning     Independence Day     Move out of this Town    Desert Storm    Raven  Tom Niehus provided editing, music and engineering for these songs. Voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus. Lyrics and melody by Jon Remmerde.      

Home is Where Affection Calls Essay by Laura Remmerde.     Unplanned Bounty  Essay.     Golden Summer; Gold from the River  Essay.     Down in the Dumps Fiction.       Dark Night in a Dark Cabin Essay.      

Blast Essay.     Autumn on the Mountain  Essay.   I Got Dreams Essay.     Winter on the Meadow  Essay.       Toilet Paper Fiction.    I Eat Lunch Poem and Reading   \    Arizona Storm Essay.        Close Encounters of the Heron Kind Essay by Laura  Remmerde.     

All the Winter's Interruptions Essay.      The Strongest Color  Fiction.      Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine  Essay.     A Poet and a Housekeeper  Essay by Laura Remmerde.              

                                    Daily Prayer

Everything on my website is copyrighted. Write me at Jon@oregonauthor.com to arrange permission to use anything and to tell me what you think about this website. All songs not oterwise attributed are written, performed, and recorded by Jon Remmerde.

I took care of a hay and cattle ranch in northeastern Oregon, then the water inlets for the city of Bend, Oregon, on Tumalo Mountain, then a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Denver and then another Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Fort Collins, Colorado.

      Laura and I and our daughters, Juniper and Amanda, lived on the places we took care of. My family participated in the caretaking and in the adventures of living in the mountains, nearly outside the consumer culture.

      Much of my writing tells about our experience as a family on remote ranches, close to wildlife and away from the consumer society

      I’ve published essays, short fiction, and poetry in The Crab Creek Review, Back Home, Bellowing Ark, Bugle, The Christian Science Monitor, The Doula, The Fiddlehead, Home Educator’s Family Times, Home Schooling, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, The Sun, a Magazine of Ideas, Yoga International, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Zyzzyva, and other magazines and newspapers. I’ve published books of fiction, and books of non fiction.  

     Many of my essays

and some of my books are about living off the grid, about wildlife we saw and interacted with, about the closeness in our family that came partly from living and working in undeveloped areas, about the education of our daughters within our family, and about the perspectives we developed partly because we lived close to the land, with nature and wildlife around us.

Featured Poems:

 The Alchemist Works at Midnight  Reading     The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday  Reading Butterfly Name  Reading       Gardening the Desert   Reading     Holy Ground We Stand On  by Laura Remmerde and Reading of the poem.     Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance     The Plowman's violin Poem.        Quickly  Poem.    Recipe for Ling Cod