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Jon Remmerde

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essays, fiction, poetry, songs

 

jon w/hatI 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.jon splits wood

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 Jon with guitarnon 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.

 


Stuff: 

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

Christianity Reviled essay.

A Man of Power, with spikes on His Boots Essay.

       More essays, poems, songs and stories are available in Archives.


Other Stuff: 

Raven and Coyote fiction.

No TV, No Cell Phone Essay.

Tips for Writers 1 Essay.

Gathering Images from a Wandering Journey Essay.

I Walked up the Hill  Poem and Reading

The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis   Essay.

         More essays, poems, songs and stories are available in Archives.


 Featured:

Killing Rattlesnakes Essay from archives.

Venison Summer Essay.

Storms on the Pete Mann Ditch Essay

Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay.

The Dark Heart of Winter Essay by Laura Remmerde.

Driving Flies  Essay and  Reading from archives.

Housework by Gender Essay from archives.

Golden Belgian, Golden Autumn Essay.

Time Flies When I'm Having Fun essay.

More of everything is available in Archives.

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Daily Prayer


Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction Essay.

Autumn on the Mountain  Essay.

Keyboarditis  Essay.

Steel Sting Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Learning to Swear  Essay, revised.

Book Of Poems In PDF, 130 poems.

Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder  Essay.

Culture Shock  Essay.
Camping without a Campfire and Without a Camera  Essay.

Diary, June 25, 2024.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Trillions for War  Essay.

Winter of Dancing  and Reading


Create to the Future Essay.

The Writer Rides in Autumn Sunshine  22% fiction and 73% fact, essay, revised.

I Got Dreams Essay.

Getting down to Laughter  Essay.

To Give or Not To Give  Essay.

Back to the Land Fiction.

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.

             More of everything in archives.


Caution!!! Read Instructions Essay.

James Jackson Riley fiction.

Get Up, Shiloh essay.

Everything's Gonna be All Right  Song by JR.

You Say I am a Cowboy Song by JR.

I'm Headed down the Road  song by JR.

Thirteen Raven Poems   Reading

Hey, Hey, Hey Song by JR.

             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.

                More of everything in archives.


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.
In the Beginning A book of 26 surreal short stories in PDF.

                More of everything in archives.


Featured:

A class is united by the 'button-factory bond'  by Laura Remmerde.

Gardening the Desert Poem and Reading

Toytown essay.

Working around Red-Winged's Nest  essay.

W.T. Essay from archives.

Story fiction.

Family Cohesion on the Ranch Essay.

Family Education 1981 Essay.

             More of everything in archives.


 Songs: written, performed, and recorded by Jon Remmerde. 

Going to the Country 

Heavy Equipment Comin' Now   

Good Morning Sunshine 

No New Messages

Light inside My Existence

Devastation Blues 

             More songs are available from Archives.


Songs: Tom Niehus, music and engineering, voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus, lyrics by Jon Remmerde.

Railroad Song 

Know Your Grower 

Snowy Owl 

Trucker in Early Morning

Independence Day 

Move out of this Town 

Desert Storm

Wake  

Raven

Keep On Making Music

 More songs are available from Archives.