by Lynn Oldshue | May 31, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“I am a seventh generation Texan. My parents divorced when I was seven and my mother started dating a man with a car dealership. They had been together for two years when he flew to Mississippi in the summer of 1991 for a job interview. I was flipping through...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 31, 2017 | A Southern Soul
I once weighed 308 pounds but it took a while to get that way. I was very skinny as a child, about 20 pounds underweight, and often had strep throat. A tonsillectomy ended the strep throat and I began to put on weight and started looking healthy and feeling good, but...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 30, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Yazoo City and you never had to find something to do because it always found you. Friday nights I drove down to 16th Street, cruised around McDonald’s twice because I probably missed something the first time, crossed the railroad tracks and...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 28, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“I have been a server/bartender for 30 something years. I started out as a busser in Minneapolis. I love serving people and I don’t meet any strangers. Taking care of people and making them happy is in my soul. My mother told me to love what you do and you...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 26, 2017 | A Southern Soul
“This is our first day of summer. We had a picnic and we are going to watch movies.” “We were freshmen, now we are sophomores.” “Do you feel older now?” “Maybe a little more mature, but not older.” “I am still five...
