OH HAI, IT’S STILL SNOWING. Not since my last post from seven months ago, but some days it feels like that. Snow is part of my identity – and something that I missed when living in the mid-Atlantic region where it rarely snowed in six years, aka: Pittsburgh, affectionately called “the east coast” by my fellow Iowans. I am Great Lakes Snow Belt raised, and find great joy in playing in the snow. I have a saucer and I know how to use it. Also, yes: I am 40 years old.

corn addict

Soooo, if people from the Corn Belt are “cornfed,” what does that make people from the Rust Belt?

Is this where I make a Clostridium tetani joke?

Ahem. Non-GMO.

strap in, huddled masses

Snow Belt, Corn Belt, Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Sun Belt… are there other regional “belt” monikers out there? Oooh, is there a Cheese Belt?

midwest shenanigans

I grew up in Ohio, which was once dubbed “The Heart of it All” and it took me until age 40.83 to realize that is because Ohio looks like a heart. Sadly, not a delicious chocolate-covered peanut butter buckeye treat… shaped heart.