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Downtown Appalachia

Shawn Means

Personal views of a life-long Appalachian city-dweller.

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The Art of Creating Without Artificial Intelligence

I get frustrated every time I open an application and have to click through the prompts and suggestions to allow AI to summarize or create for me. So today when Microsoft Word asked me “what would you like to create?” I answered “something...

10 months ago

A Tale of Two Trees, part 2

Last fall I had a post about an experiment I was running with two different species of trees. I promised an update in the spring, and so here it is:

The Princess Tree (Paulownia tomentosa) has had a tremendously productive spring. I decide...

a year ago
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Hard Road - A Novel?

I never intended this story to grow beyond a few thousand words, but it just seemed unable to find its ending. So I’m going to allow it to go out on its own for a while.

Here’s chapter one:

It is nearly impossible to truly understand a s...

a year ago

Easy Fixes Don't Fix Anything

With the turbulent political climate in which we find ourselves, it’s only natural that people are looking for small ways to be helpful in their communities. Social media is seeing an increase in the number of posts people share with ideas...

a year ago

A Tale of Two Trees

A few years ago I became interested — ok, fanatical — about a particular species of tree that is considered an invasive in the United States, the Paulownia. Specifically and pedantically, it is the Paulownia tomentosa that piqued my interes...

2 years ago
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    Retired non-profit CEO and current hospitality and tourism entrepreneur in wild and wonderful West Virginia, the state with the best people and the worst politicians. Love readin' & writin' but not so much 'rithmatic.

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