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Story by Dennis M., edited by Brooks Sherry Markovitz, our dear friend and next-door neighbor, was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented and prominent



Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
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Story by Dennis M., edited by Brooks Sherry Markovitz, our dear friend and next-door neighbor, was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented and prominent



When I began writing a Substack column, never did I imagine that I would devote an essay to a single hotel. Then my husband and
Wooden vessels in the Aboriginal wing of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. These vessels were used to transport burning coals from one end



When a dear friend recently invited us to visit her in Sydney, Australia, I came expecting to hear the phrase, “G’Day, Mate,” repeated on a
Keith R. Kolb, FAIA The following essay pursues some of the themes I explore in my forthcoming memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER: A YOUNG MAN’S SEARCH
The following is another excerpt deleted from my memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, which will be published by Spark Press in June, 2026. Toward the end
“The Magic Flute” at Seattle Opera I don’t know what I was expecting when I purchased tickets to the Seattle Opera’s production of Mozart’s “The



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



In this fourth installment of passages that I cut from my memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, my unofficial college advisor, the highly esteemed Dr. Paul J.