The Author
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. … Read more >>
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a convergence of nature
A green hummingbird, a yellow swallowtail, a fuzzy bee all converged on the garden late afternoon and observed both withering [...]
for 30 years now
30 years ago, my family moved from Los Angeles County to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and I was fifteen and going [...]
Dear Great-Opa Pieter
Dear Great-Opa Pieter — If I could ask you one thing, today, I would wonder aloud — How did you [...]