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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

Featured: Winter on the Meadow The Strongest Color Fiction. Leo Rising Fiction. Culture Shock Essay. Pasque Flowers' Spring Dance Poem. Blackbirds Flying in Sunshine Essay. A Poet and a Housekeeper Essay by Laura Remmerde. Liberating Horses Essay. Hey, Hey, Hey Song. I Got Dreams Rolling around inside My Head Song. Tips for Writers 1 I Dreamed We Danced Poem.

Freedom for a Very Small Bird Essay.

Smart Phones and Our Dumb Phone essay.

Ramblings, 8-10-2025

A Motley Crew Buys Kefir Essay.

Autumn of Dying Tees Essay.

Boisterous Rats Essay.

Unplanned Bounty essay.

Four-Wheel Drive on the Meadow essay.

Dark Night in a Dark Cabin essay.

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.

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.

Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Keyboarditis Essay.

Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder Essay.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Learning to Swear Essay, revised.

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

Working around Red-Winged's Nest essay.

W.T. Essay.

Gift of Creativity Essay.

Everything on my website is copyrighted. Write me at Jon@oregonauthor.com to arrange permission to use anything.

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.

Father Elk Fiction.

Give Me Some Sugar Fiction.

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

The Committee Essay.

Dream of Winter and Reading poem.