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My mother's parents owned a ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Oroville, CA. We spent summers and holidays at the ranch, playing outdoors in the daylight, then blanketed by family history held in the furnishings, structure and smells of the ranch house after sunset. My parents ran Far View Ranch Camp (a children's residence camp) at the ranch for 29 summers, and I was there for most of them. In the last few years of their camp, I developed a close friendship with another camp counselor, Robin Setchko, and we started down the relationship path that finds us still in love today. Relationship has been a great teacher. I'm grateful to Robin for sticking with me through the hard times — mostly communication challenges. Robin and I ran the camp for a while after my parents retired, and that experience was also a great teacher: taking responsibility for numerous loved ones; learning to set firm limits with children and young adults from a place of kindness; leading others toward meaningful goals; living with my own limitations while stretching capabilities I'd never known. Our decision to marry and have children came several years later. We were cautious, and wanted the glue to stick. Ellen and Michael were born into the camp atmosphere. Michael was younger, and his first summer at camp happened to be our last. The novel Sky was born the summer after Ellen was born, and until this day the story has grown, bit by bit, to the point of publication. While living in Eugene, my first real job at a pizza parlor gave me cash for flying lessons. Breaking free from the surface is a wonderful but small taste of what astronauts feel, and I dreamed of flying to the moon and beyond. My closest approach to space travel came through reading science fiction, but I kept flying, finally owning an airplane afforded by a small inheritance. I attended a few different colleges before finally settling down on Physics at Sonoma State University. One of my professors became my employer after graduation, and from an acoustics perspective, I dabbled in electronics and computer science. When we stopped running the summer camp, the internet was becoming a major event, and I headed in that direction, programming for three small companies until burning out on the the experience. By that time, Sky had finished emerging, and had seen several revisions. Soon after solar panel costs dropped, the time was right for installing a home system. Ellen and I got the electric car bug and did a complete conversion of a small pickup in her high school senior year. That experience was like taking the \"red pill\" (Matrix), and I can't and won't go back to ICE cars! I currently work at Thunderstruck Motors supporting DIY electric vehicles of all types, directing creative energy toward meaningful goals with people I enjoy. I'm now in my sixties, feeling mortal yet grateful, and open to the next steps."},{"label":"Author Website","value":"http://www.johnpalmerlee.com/index.html"},{"label":"Find e-Books by This Author","value":"View <a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?adv_all=%22Palmerlee%2C%John%22|AND&searchtypes=Full%20text|Metadata&filter_190=Sonoma%20County%20Local%20Author%20and%20Visual%20Artist%20Works&applyState=true\">e-books</a> by John Palmerlee"},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by John Palmerlee in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Palmerlee+John%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by John Palmerlee in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Palmerlee+John\" target=\"_blank\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Search Author in WorldCat","value":"Search for John Palmerlee's author profile in <a href=\"https://worldcat.org/identities/find?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:identity&rft.namelast=Palmerlee&rft.namefirst=John rel=\">WorldCat Identities</a>"},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2026-04-15"},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?search=%22Palmerlee,%22John&searchtypes=Metadata|Full%20text&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\">Palmerlee, John</a>"},{"label":"Filename","value":"john_palmerlee.jpg"},{"label":"Digital Archives Area Group(s)","value":["Local Arts"]},{"label":"Title","value":"John Palmerlee"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["photographs","portraits","bibliographies","biography files"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Country","value":["United States"]},{"label":"State or Province","value":["California"]},{"label":"California County","value":["Sonoma"]},{"label":"City or Town","value":["Santa Rosa"]},{"label":"Geographic Metadata Source","value":["GNIS"]},{"label":"Street Address","value":"Santa Rosa, California"},{"label":"Latitude","value":"38.463407"},{"label":"Longitude","value":"-122.718931"},{"label":"Geocoding Status","value":["Approximate geocoding"]},{"label":"Map Zoom Level","value":["13"]},{"label":"Maps/StreetView","value":"Locate John Palmerlee's most recent (or notable) place of residence in <a href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@38.463407,-122.718931,13z\" target=\"_blank\">Google Maps</a>"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"john_palmerlee"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["John Palmerlee"]}],"description":"John Palmerlee","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"John Palmerlee","height":400,"width":400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":400,"width":400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/54a6e0ad-d3e5-491a-b4aa-770c8931dcba/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}