Happy Sesquicentennial to Colorado! Born 1876 and still going strong in 2026, 150 years of purple mountain majesties (“America The Beautiful” was written about Pikes Peak).
Our state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine, which grows wild and in abundance in the mountains (like these flowers in Breckenridge).
While I grew up in California, we moved to Colorado in 1993 and it’s always felt like my true home.
A native of Southern California, Caroline Mertens moved to Colorado as a teen. She received her B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Colorado Christian University in Denver. Her grandmother's immigration tales of adventure, love, pain, and redemption provided ample amounts of hope, grace, and literary inspiration for her debut, In Those Other Lands.
After a season of work in the Netherlands, England, and France, Caroline returned to Colorado. Over the years, she has worked as a magazine editor, a professional writer, and an assistant to a Young Life director. However, Caroline's most fulfilling career is teaching high school English and Creative Writing. She strives to encourage teenagers to read what they love, and inspires her students to engage in purposeful creative writing. Caroline is passionate about traveling, cooking Indonesian food, and exploring Colorado with her family.
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