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This is a guest post by an amazing writer, actress… and wife! The fantastic Sarah Zahn is an avid learner and Mindy Kaling fan. She likes coffee, fun writing games, and bags of Doritos. She’s also the founder of Sugared Beauty, LLC, a line of skincare made with organic ingredients. Follow her adventures here: @SugaredBeauty.[/box]
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t enjoy learning. Like being from a small town in the Midwest, learning stuff and getting good grades just seemed like my lot in life. This didn’t exactly grant me a lot of friends in school. In 7th grade I remember a kid in my class introducing me to the cute new boy as a brownie. I’m ashamed to admit I thought it was a compliment.
As a result of this and other name-calling incidents, some of the first interpersonal relationship lessons I heard from my mom was that I should “get a sense of humor” and “bury the hatchet.”
I am still figuring out how to do this.
It’s not that I was any smarter than anyone else, I just got a kick out of learning things. Throughout grade school I would toe the line between first and almost-first in class…until I hit puberty. Continue reading “Brownie for Life”