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Dec 14, 2025

Hand v. The Butterfly: Why Negligence Law Pretends the Universe Behaves Itself

A satirical stroll through Judge Learned Hand’s famous negligence formula and the Butterfly Effect — featuring math that never gets…

Hand v. The Butterfly: Why Negligence Law Pretends the Universe Behaves Itself

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Nov 6

Travels with Turbo, Tracker, and Aster Inverse (A.I.): Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

Another season ends in the shadow of an old mountain

Travels with Turbo, Tracker, and Aster Inverse (A.I.): Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

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The Pub

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Oct 26

Magna’s Star Log: Before There Was Me

Constructor Turings, Terra Nullius, and the Mystery that Left Us Stranded on Minnerec 3

Magna’s Star Log: Before There Was Me

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Grief Book Club

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Oct 20

The Things I Lost: June 23, 2007

What I know about the day my son died

The Things I Lost: June 23, 2007

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Oct 13

The Haunted House of English

In English language spelling and pronunciation, words vanish, sounds change, and sometimes the walls move.

Spooky illustration of a haunted house built classic Halloween characters used as metaphors for the tricky phonics English language uses like homophones, silent letters, contractions, prefixes, suffixes, and heteronyms.

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Oct 5

Travels with Turbo, Tracker, and Aster Inverse (A.I.): Gorham, Freeport, and Greenville

Who can go, who can’t go, and what we do when the road is still calling anyway.

Travels with Turbo, Tracker, and Aster Inverse (A.I.): Gorham, Freeport, and Greenville

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Sep 30

Three Wishes — A Writing Challenge

“A dream is a wish your heart makes…”

Three Wishes — A Writing Challenge

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Grief Book Club

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Sep 25

The Things I Lost: Faith

Question words, fish and scorpions, and the faith that survived my son’s death

The Things I Lost: Faith

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Sep 13

Where Demeter’s Daughter Ascends the Throne of Hell in January by Prescriptive Easement

If you endure a Maine winter long enough, you own each other.

Where Demeter’s Daughter Ascends the Throne of Hell in January by Prescriptive Easement

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Sep 8

Magna’s Star Log: About Locusts

On an alien mining world, Magna prepares for an approaching locust swarm while trying to be patient with her little sister.

The girls’ mother has to leave them alone while they must prepare for the arrival of a terrifying and deadly locust swarm. The girls see a lone locust eating a spider on the window pane. Philippa tries to communicate with it.

Deanna A. House

Deanna A. House

Exploring life lessons through dogs, education, law, travel, grief, and everyday moments using essays, memoir, fiction, and poetry.

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