Corn, Corn, Corn. I stare at corn about 9 months out of the year! I eat corn, I grade corn, I like corn bread muffins, I like corn bread casserole! I guess it’s destiny that I’m corn fed. But, I don’t live on a farm! I don’t drive a tractor to work and I like to think that keep up with the times!

I grew up on a farm, in fact I lived on a farm/acreage till I was 18 and my mom and I moved to town a year after my parents got divorced! I was furious with my mom for taking me out of the country! I was bred a country girl! I don’t wear cowgirl boots, I don’t wear wranglers, I don’t ride a horse, I can drive a tractor if need be, but it’s been quite a few years!

Now, what does it mean to be corn fed? It’s about the kind of people we are.

Corn fed is the way we were raised.

Corn fed is being from a small town in Iowa!

Corn fed is being a girl who went to Wartburg College (because my parents instilled the importance of a college education in me)!

Corn Fed is a girl who moved to a town in Southwest Iowa and taught high school for 2 years before going through a broken engagement and needing to be near my family!

Corn Fed is being a girl that family is first in everything!

Corn fed is appreciating the agricultural business and the commerce is provides to my town, my county, and state!

Corn fed is being a girl who opens the post office door for the 83 year old ladies uptown!

Corn fed is walking to get the mail at the post office and everyone along the way knowing my name!

Corn fed is the work ethic that my parents instilled in my that causes me to work a full time job, waitress part-time, work periodic construction with my Dad, along with helping my grandpa or parents with various projects!

Corn fed is loving the fact that I get to “go to the farm” at my Dad’s, smell the farm air, pet the chickens, pigs, cows, & horses and then go home to my house in town!

Corn Fed is appreciating the cities and enjoying visiting them, but knowing enough that they aren’t where I belong and that I belong in my hometown of 4500 people!

Corn Fed is understanding the small town mentality and all that it includes (gossip, etc.), but appreciating what it is too and not wanting to live anywhere else!

So, are you corn fed?  What’s your definition of corn fed?  Do you want to be corn fed, if you’re not?  You should want to be, if you aren’t,  because there is no better life!