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Portlandia, the icon that isn’t

Portlandia, the icon that isn’t

  Update: The Portland Building was reconstructed and reopened in 2020. What would Wall Street be without its massive charging bull? Probably just another New York...

Postcards from Surreal Places

Postcards from Surreal Places

Last summer while I was traveling  in the Hudson Valley, NY and poking around in antique shops, I stumbled upon this 1986 tear-out book of postcards by Michael...

Finding my way home: Buffalo

Finding my way home: Buffalo

I grew up in Buffalo and I didn't know until I read this post from architectural writer Alexandra Lange that I grew up in an architectural mecca. Lange's article...

Russel Wright designed sophistication

Russel Wright designed sophistication

This week, I'm looking forward to attending a lecture on Modernism by writer and critic  Alexandra Lange. Lange contributes to Architect, Domus, Dwell, Medium,...

Kyle Pierson

Kyle Pierson

Florida writer living in
the Pacific Northwest

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Kyle Pierson

I never expected to leave the beach, palm trees, and glorious sunsets of Florida. Seriously! I even have a master’s degree in Florida Studies. So, my move to Washington, the Evergreen State, had to be from a powerful pull. It was; in 2020, my husband Dave and I became grandparents to twin grandsons, and their brother who was born in 2022. Grandparenting adds a new busy dimension to our lives and readers might assume my interest in Florida nature and architecture has faded. But I’m curious about those things here in the PNW too. I’m looking forward to learning like a kid again and having three little guys join me on my explorations!

You’ll find my writings about Florida, North Carolina, and Washington here, along with a new tab, poetry and maybe some drawings. So the journey continues. You’re welcome to come along.