The Allure of Palm Springs
February 20, 2025 No Comments
The Allure of Palm Springs Nearly two hours into one’s drive eastwards from Los Angeles on Route 10, the freeway speeds through dry desert flanked
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Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
The Allure of Palm Springs Nearly two hours into one’s drive eastwards from Los Angeles on Route 10, the freeway speeds through dry desert flanked
Century 21: Jet City I was an excited nine-year-old boy when my parents led my brother and me up to one of the carefully guarded
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Following is the second excerpt which I cut from my forthcoming memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER “Howdy!” said my new roommate Scott, when I opened the
Author’s note: in revising my forthcoming memoir, tentatively titled LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, I naturally needed to make some cuts, but it occurred to me that
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written on the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination (February 21, 1965) Just in time for Black History Month, I woke up one morning realizing
