Karen CloseCarolyn Cowan is an editor of the Sage-ing with Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude journal. She is also the editor of Creative Aging. She's a student of poetry and likes to paint in any spare time. She's a regular volunteer with Hospie House in Kelowna. Although Carolyn lived abroad and in Toronto for many years, the west with its prairies and mountains are in her bones. She's a daughter of the west.