Kohl returned to his home in Point Arena in the summer of 2006. Storms and water damage during the spring destroyed his study and many of his books and resources. It took months to rebuild, and some of the work is still going on. Nevertheless, he continued to write, and his book "Painting Chinese" (Bloomsbury, New York, 2007) was finished in Point Arena and published in 2007. In addition, a collection of his works, "The Herb Kohl Reader" (The New Press, New York, 2009) was published in 2009.