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Jon Remmerde

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

Poetry page, Essays Page. Fiction page Songs Page Books Page

Featured: Diary 12-20-2025 Culture Shock Essay. W.T. Essay. Ants and Grasshoppers Essay. Bad News Song Everything's Gonna be All Right song. Devastation Blues Song Toilet Paper Fiction. The Writer Rides in Autumn Sunshine Fiction. Blast essay. I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song. Autumn on the Mountain Essay. Father Elk Fiction. Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay. You Say I am a Cowboy Song. Winter on the Meadow Essay. Unplanned Bounty essay. All the Winter's Interruptions Essay. The Strongest Color Fiction. Recipe for Ling Cod song A class is united by the 'button-factory bond' essay by Laura Remmerde. 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 group of 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.

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

A Motley Crew Buys Kefir Essay.

Autumn of Dying Tees Essay.

Boisterous Rats Essay.

Four-Wheel Drive on the Meadow essay.

Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay.

Harmony on the Feedground Essay

Learning to cross country ski essay

Cross Country Skiing in Moonlight essay.

Diary, June 25, 2024.

Caution!!! Read Instructions Essay.

Get Up, Shiloh essay.

The Coldest Place in Oregon Essay

Developing Images Essay

The Earliest Flowers of Spring essay.

Essays from a Family of Four essay.

Webmaster's Diary April 28, 2024.

Smoke and Fire Essay.

Wasps Join us for Lunch Essay.

Keyboarditis Essay.

Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder Essay.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Learning to Swear Essay, revised.

Working around Red-Winged's Nest essay.

Gift of Creativity Essay.

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Featured Poems for 12/18/2025: The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday Reading The Alchemist Works at Midnight Reading Quickly Recipe for Ling Cod Holy Ground We Stand On by Laura Remmerde and Reading of the poem. Poetry is Seeing Sore Butt Blues Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance

Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction Essay.

Trillions for War Essay.

Several Short Statements from the Webmaster's Journal of 2018

We Are Better than That essay. Revised 8/8/2025.

Christianity Reviled Essay.

Electric Vehicles Editorial rant.

I Got Dreams Essay.

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.

Give Me Some Sugar Fiction.

Musings One, 2wo, 3hree, 4our, 5ive, and 6ix.

The Committee Essay.

Dream of Winter and Reading poem.