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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



Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
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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
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
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
Date: December 17, 2022 Not a day goes by that I don’t ask the question, does my life have value given that I’m not a


