Brooks Kolb

Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.

Category: Commentary

THE BOHEMIAN ENIGMA

January 7, 2023 Fifteen years after the “Summer of Love,” I lived briefly in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district.  The hippie era was decidedly over, but

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WHAT MAKES A GREAT HIT?

January 5, 2023 TikTok.  Spotify.  YouTube.  Pandora.  Playlists.  Sirius XM.  Amazon Alexa.  How is a newly-minted senior citizen supposed to know where to find today’s

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LOVE AS A FRENCH INVENTION

January 2, 2023 Years ago, I read a wonderful book called “How the French Invented Love.”   The author, Marilyn Yallom, traces nine hundred years of

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ON OBJECTIFICATION

January 2, 2023 One cannot be sexually attracted to another person without objectifying them, at least a little.   As in:  ‘Get a load of those

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