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Somewhere in an Oregon Valley
Somewhere in an Oregon Valley
Somewhere in an Oregon Valley
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Somewhere in an Oregon Valley tells about our family's adventures working and living on a ranch in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. We had no electricity and no plumbing, no garbage pickup, no television, no radio, no modern conveniences. We pursued education where we lived, and we saw and sometimes interacted with much of the abundant wildlife in the area. Leaning toward spiritual values and existing, by choice and by circumstance, almost outside the consumer culture, led to a rewarding and joyful existence for everyone in the family, the parents, Laura and Jon, and their daughters, Juniper and Amanda.

Some readers say Somewhere in an Oregon Valley changed their lives by helping lead them away from merely material values that often seem to consume people in the modern world and toward the joy that becomes possible by seeking and pursuing more spiritual values.

Excerpts from Somewhere in an Oregon Valley have been published as essays in Bellowing Ark, The Christian Science Monitor, The Doula, Home Educator's Family Times, Home Education Magazine, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, The Sun, and other magazines.

LanguageEnglish
Publisherjon Remmerde
Release dateApr 7, 2011
ISBN9780979783326
Somewhere in an Oregon Valley
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jon Remmerde

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. We, Laura, my wife, 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. I've written most of my adult life. 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 autobiographical non fiction. I've created songs along the way Many of my essays are about wildlife we saw and interacted with, about our close family that came from living and working in undeveloped areas, about the education within our family, about the perspectives that come from living close to the land with nature and wildlife close around us. I've kept my songs for myself and for family and friends, but recently, I decided to learn guitar, singing, and all the computer-related procedures well enough to record my songs and make them available to interested listeners. I'm involved in that process now, learning, practicing, recording and distributing my songs.  I will eventually record audio readings of some of my written work, because audio readings, along with my songs, have received good responses on my website. I still write essays, poems and stories, and I keep my website http://www.oregonauthor.com as up-to-date and relevant as I can in an attempt to make my some of my work available to readers and listeners for free and in an attempt to sell some of it.

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