Allow me to introduce you to myself: at 7 a tomboy, at 9 a daredevil, at 13 a nerd, at 17 a know-it-all, at 21 a dreamer, at 25 a mother and throughout that whole time an obsessive learner. I love to learn, explore and ask millions of questions. The truth is you would be endeared by all my questioning. No, really. I would be happy to listen to you talk about anything you are interested in. You tell me: soap carving, entomology, beetle fighting, noodling, tree shaping, or bottle digging. It’s all fascinating to me. It seems I have a serious case of the newbies or what Buddhists call…