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Jon Remmerde

essays, fiction, poetry, songs, photographs

Know Your Grower Snowy Owl Voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus. Music, editing and engineering, Tom Neihus. Lyrics and melody, Jon Remmerde.

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Featured: A class is united by the 'button-factory bond' essay by Laura Remmerde. Breakfast in Moonlight Essay. Dance of the Least Weasel Essay. Bad News Song Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay. Story Fiction. Devastation Blues Song. Blast Essay. Diary, Feb 24, 2026 Unplanned Bounty Essay. Building Compost Essay. Autumn on the Mountain Essay. Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay. I Got Dreams Essay. I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song. Winter on the Meadow Essay. Culture Shock Essay. Saved Again by the Generous Force of Life and Love Essay. Ebullience in Early Morning Essay. Home is Where Affection Calls Essay by Laura Remmerde. Summer Rose Special and reading Fiction The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay Toilet Paper Fiction. I Eat Lunch Poem and Reading Of Man and Mouse Fiction Arizona Storm Essay. Close Encounters of the Heron Kind Essay by Laura Remmerde. W.T. Essay.

Featured 2: All the Winter's Interruptions Essay. Backstroke, Breaststroke, Slowpoke Essay. The Strongest Color Fiction. Recipe for Ling Cod song. Leo Rising Fiction. I Ain't Courtin' You No More Song. Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine Essay. A Poet and a Housekeeper Essay by Laura Remmerde. Liberating Horses Essay. Hey, Hey, Hey Song. Tips for Writers 1 I Dreamed We Danced Poem. I'm Headed down the Road song. Freedom for a Very Small Bird Essay. Smart Phones and Our Dumb Phone essay.

Tom Niehus provided editing, music and engineering for the songs below. Voice, Leiza Rea and Tom Neihus. Lyrics and melody by Jon Remmerde. These songs and some others are available through retail outlets. Type The Night Sweepers\Keep on Making Music into a search engine to locate and buy.

Trucker in Early Morning Independence Day Move out of this Town Desert Storm Raven Keep On Making Music

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.