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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.

             More of everything in archives.

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.