Brooks Kolb

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

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Century 21: Jet City

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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Ten Arthur’s Round Table

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.

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Spearfish, North Dakota

Three little windshield wipers rattled back and forth while Rich’s white MGB convertible barreled down the freeway in the rain with the top up. Rich

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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

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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

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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

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