M
Marv Howard
Writer · Builder · Keeper of Old Stories

Works

A life's work at the intersection of story, technology, and the old, strange north.

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Sailing up Olympus
A novel of education, agency, and the architecture of learning

A narrative argument against the behaviorist legacy of Skinner's Walden Two — told as fiction, rooted in constructivist theory, and born from twenty years in the classroom.

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The Search for Elfland
Border ballads of the Scottish supernatural tradition

A collection of ballads from the threshold country where the human world and fairy world press against each other — collected, annotated, and illuminated by someone who has walked the path to Doon Hill.

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Forthcoming
Foundations of Computer Science
For young adult learners

An accessible, humanist introduction to computational thinking — built from courses developed for Iowa high school students, and designed for the learner who wants to understand the machine, not just use it.

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JavaScript Canvas Projects
For young adult learners

Project-driven creative coding with the HTML5 Canvas API — because the best way to learn programming is to make something appear on screen and feel the immediate, visceral satisfaction of code made visible.

Britain & Scotland · 2014 & 2026
The Road to the Secret Commonwealth

In 2014 we drove on the left for two weeks, tracing a route from the Howard family seat at Arundel through the sacred prehistoric landscape of Avebury and Stonehenge, past the Uffington White Horse, north through Liverpool and Glasgow to Mauchline — where my wife's family boarded a ship for America in 1850 — and finally to Aberfoyle, where Robert Kirk wrote about the fairy folk and then, one evening in 1692, walked up the hill and did not come back. These are the photographs from that journey, and from the return.

Arundel UK
Avebury & Stonehenge
Uffington White Horse
Liverpool
Mauchline, Ayrshire
Aberfoyle & Doon Hill
Edinburgh
Speyside · May 2026