Brooks Kolb
Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
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High-Rise South
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
Summer in France
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
Summer in France
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
Invisible Dragons
Growing up in Seattle in the 1950s and ‘60s, I had no word for “gay.” My father was a distinguished professor of architecture, and in
THE ENDURING APPEAL OF MALCOLM X
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is one of the most engrossing, thought-provoking books I have ever read. Part of its power is that when you
SELLING DAD’S HOUSE
SELLING DAD’S HOUSE One morning in the spring of 2015, my father fell and broke his hip. Fortunately, he was in the master bathroom, so
