by Lynn Oldshue | May 12, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“Hartley had Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder. As soon as we received the diagnosis at the twenty-second week of my pregnancy, Rene Sprague from the Bridge Program was with us and laid out our options. I needed to have a plan because when you are thrown into this,...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 9, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I have two amazing girls and was a single mom for a long time. Their father wasn’t in their lives, so I pushed hard to make a better life for the three of us. There were times I didn’t know where we were going to live and what we were going to do. I...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 5, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I didn’t appreciate Yazoo City until after I left. Outsiders think we are from a poor, small town in a state last in education. But traveling outside of Mississippi helped me understand that I wasn’t as unfortunate as the world told me I was. Being from...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 3, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My parents divorced when I was four. I went to St. Andrew’s School in Jackson through the eighth grade. It was becoming increasingly difficult for my mother to work full-time to support us, get me to cheerleader practice, and keep all of the balls in the...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 2, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I’ll be 90 on August 3. My first memory is of a woman standing in a doorway. Her skin color was beautiful. It was like coffee with cream in it. She wore a long dress that was muted in color. It had probably been washed a lot. My mother called her and she said,...
