by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 25, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We are just people trying to get by in life. We play music on the street to earn our money instead of asking for handouts. We do migrant work. We were just on farms in the northeast doing harvest work. We want good things for our life, it is just hard to find...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 24, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro with my daughter, Greer, and good friend, Dede, in December but I am not sure how it happened. Five years ago the three of us did a 60-mile breast cancer walk and I made a little book for both of them. In the back I wrote,...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 20, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“My first time to cook and feed homeless people was in October. There was a burning inside of me that I had to do this but I was a little embarrassed and scared to start because I didn’t know how I would be received. I felt God was tugging into the communities I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 19, 2020 | A Southern Soul
Nigeria. That child kept me on my toes. I was the oldest of five and didn’t want kids. If I did have a child, I wanted a girl so I could comb her hair. My child was a girly-girl and always wanted her hair done. Makeup, nails, everything. She was an only child....
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 18, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I have been cleaning rooms all my life. I worked at Mercedes, but my transportation got bad on me and I couldn’t go back. I took a job with lesser pay. I am a single mom with five kids. Our lights have been turned off for two weeks so we don’t have heat and I...