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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.

poems: After Drought Reading

The Alchemist Works at Midnight Reading

The Beef You Eat Today Was Hydraulic Oil Yesterday Reading.

Burned Out Blues Reading

Captured. Enraptured Reading

Thirteen Raven Poems Reading

Leo Rising Fiction.

Create to the Future Essay

Camping without a Campfire and Without a Camera Essay.

Diary, June 25, 2024.

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

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

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

Other Stuff:

Gathering Images from a Wandering Journey Essay.

I Walked up the Hill Poem and Reading

The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis Essay.

Killing Rattlesnakes Essay from archives.

Storms on the Pete Mann Ditch Essay

Driving Flies Essay and Reading from archives.

Housework by Gender Essay from archives.

More of everything is available in Archives.

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Daily Prayer

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

Guns, Wars, Murders, Destruction Revised. September 15, 2024. Essay.

Trillions for War 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.

Songs page

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.

In the Beginning Book, 26 surreal short stories PDF.

Abraham's Journey A book in PDF. An allegory.
I Got Dreams Book. 27 short stories. Fiction.

Book Of Poems In PDF, 130 poems.

Purl's Sunny Approach to Picking up the Pieces essay.

Raven and Coyote fiction.

Intention and Purpose of this Website.

Gardening the Desert Reading

Culture Shock Essay.

Lyle's Place Fiction

From this Valley Fiction.

Down in the Dumps Fiction.

The Last Great Western Stock Drive Fiction.

Christianity Reviled Essay.

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.

Autumn on the Mountain Essay.

All the Winter's Interruptions 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.

Smoke and Fire Essay.

Wasps Join us for Lunch Essay.

Electric Vehicles Editorial rant.

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

Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges Essay.

Several Short Statements from the Webmaster's Journal of 2018

Dance of the Least Weasel Essay.

Venison Summer Essay.

Keyboarditis Essay.

Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder Essay.

A Man Called Grandma Essay.

Learning to Swear Essay, revised.

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.