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Know Your Grower Tom Niehus, music, editing and engineering. Voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus. Lyrics and melody by Jon Remmerde.
Burned Out Blues Poem. Reading
Christianity Reviled Essay.
We Are Better than That essay.
Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction Essay.
Trillions for War Essay.
Musings One, 2wo, 3hree, 4our, and 5ive.
Dream of Winter and Reading poem.
Winter Wind Essay.
Venison Summer Essay.
Sourdough Essay.
Potato Chips and Love Essay.
That Casserole Essay.
Bad News song by J.R. (More songs on Songs page.)
Devastation Blues Song by J.R.
A Motley Crew Buys Kefir Essay.
Holy Ground We Stand On Poem by Laura Remmerde and Reading of the poem.
Raven and Coyote Fiction.
Ambition at Daylight Poem.
Autumn of Dying Tees Essay.
Tips for Writers 1 Essay.
A Poet and a Housekeeper by Laura Remmerde.
Liberating Horses Essay.
Culture Shock Essay.
Boisterous Rats Essay.
No TV, No Cell Phone, Essay.
James Jackson Riley fiction, novella, 11,343 words.)
Unplanned Bounty essay.
Four-Wheel Drive on the Meadow essay.
Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay.
Earth Thinks about Spring and Reading Poem.
The Strongest Color Fiction.
Jake's Song Fiction.
I Load Rocks While Raven Rides the Wind Essay.
Thirteen Raven Poems Reading
Coyotes Sang and Reading poem.
The Dark Heart of Winter Essay by Laura Remmerde.
Harmony on the Feedground Essay
Autumn on the Mountain Essay.
Learning to cross country ski essay
Cross Country Skiing in Moonlight essay.
All the Winter's Interruptions Essay.
poems: After Drought Reading
The Alchemist Works at Midnight Reading
The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday Reading.
Captured. Enraptured Reading
Leo Rising Fiction.
Create to the Future Essay
Camping without a Campfire and Without a Camera Essay.
Diary, June 25, 2024.
Short and Happy Life of Spaghetti Johnson fiction.
Iron Thumb, Beavers and Me Essay from archives.
Rain Poem and Reading.
Writing a New Poem and Reading
A Man of Power, with spikes on His Boots Essay.
More essays, poems, songs and stories are available in Archives.
Other Stuff:
Gathering Images from a Wandering Journey Essay.
I Walked up the Hill Poem and Reading
The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis Essay.
Killing Rattlesnakes Essay from archives.
Storms on the Pete Mann Ditch Essay
Driving Flies Essay and Reading from archives.
Housework by Gender Essay from archives.
More of everything is available in Archives.
Caution!!! Read Instructions Essay.
Get Up, Shiloh essay.
More of everything in archives.
The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay
Laura's Poem (In the Beauty of Earth Itself)
Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance Reading
Developing Images Essay
The Earliest Flowers of Spring essay.
Essays from a Family of Four essay.
Webmaster's Diary April 28, 2024.
A class is united by the 'button-factory bond' by Laura Remmerde.
Working around Red-Winged's Nest essay.
W.T. Essay from archives.
Story fiction.
Keyboarditis Essay.
Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder Essay.
A Man Called Grandma Essay.
Learning to Swear Essay, revised.
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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.
Clothesline fiction.
Dance of the Least Weasel Essay.
I Dreamed We Danced poem by J.R.
Down to the River Song by J.R,
I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song by J.R.
Night Sweepers Song by J.R.
I Ain't Courtin' You No More Song by J.R.
Books: Somewhere in an Oregon Valley Book in PDF. My family's adventures living on a ranch in the mountains, nearly outside the consumer culture. Quiet People in a Noisy World Book in PDF. 72 essays about my family’s life on remote ranches, on quiet mountains in Oregon and in Colorado, far from the noise and stress of modern life.
Abraham's Journey A book in PDF. An allegory.
Llamas are Herd Animals Essay.
Larry Llama Essay.
A Long-Necked Profile in Courage Essay.
Golden Summer and Gold from the Yuba River Essay.
Family Cohesion on the Ranch Essay.
Family Education 1981 Essay.
Time Flies When I'm Having Fun essay.
Golden Belgian, Golden Autumn Essay.
The Bullfight I Nearly Joined Essay.
Butterfly Name and Reading Poem.
Our Christmas Angel An essay by Laura Remmerde, and her Reading of the essay.
Purl's Sunny Approach to Picking up the Pieces essay.
Intention and Purpose of this Website.
Gardening the Desert poem Reading
Lyle's Place Fiction
From this Valley Fiction.
Down in the Dumps Fiction.
The Last Great Western Stock Drive Fiction.
Gift of Creativity Essay.
Admonitions from the Wind Essay.
All Things Loud and Electrical Essay.
Driving the Crumpled Car Essay.
Elk on the Meadow Essay.
Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine Essay.
Breakfast in Moonlight Essay.
Winter of Dancing and Reading.
Back to the Land Fiction.
Toytown essay.
I Got Dreams Essay.
Getting down to Laughter Essay.
To Give or Not To Give Essay.
Blast Essay.
Jim Flies the Red Tractor Essay.
Santa Fe's Organic Vegetables Essay.
Ponce de Leon and Reading Fiction.
Guns along the Northfork Essay.