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# Cookie
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- Published: 2026-02-19T13:56:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:11:35.000Z
- Description: “Cookie,” written February 19, poem 050 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, "Cookie Booth: a Generational Inheritance of Entrepreneurship," by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Poems, Community, Cookies, Entrepeneurship, February, Generations, Girl Scouts, Girls, History, Nostalgia, Sales, Skills, Traditions, USA, Winter, Women, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

One hundred nine years ago  
the first Girl Scout cookie was sold  
by an enterprising Scout troop  
in an Oklahoma school lunch room.  
  
By 1928 eager girls went in pairs  
selling on foot in sashes and beanies  
spreading cheer and sugar while  
accruing sales and confidence.  
  
Echoing my elders, I rolled my  
Radio Flyer wagon down streets  
hawking Samoas and Trefoils,   
Golden Nut Clusters and Snaps.   
  
A generation later, now a Leader,  
I'm still behind the booth rallying  
with calls of "Cookies for Sale!" and  
"Support female entrepreneurs!"   
  
As I stomp my chilled feet, warm  
my numb hands and focus the girls  
on tactics, I summon eleven decades  
of girls baking into business leaders.  
  
How many impactful corporations  
and organizations were founded by  
these girls who learned negotiations  
on local streets pushing cookies?  
  
As my eager Scouts break a twenty  
for a shy elder, I smile at the sweetness  
of leaders earning dough from dough;  
future CEOs forged from cookie cred.