by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 16, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I am from a family of entrepreneurs in Mobile. My uncles owned a music shop, and my family owned a convenience store on St. Stephens Road. My mom had Faye’s Soul Food. I had a tax service on Airport Boulevard, but I made baskets of flowers on the side. My tax...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 14, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I moved to Fairhope my senior year of high school. I got a job after graduation because college was too much. I work at Winn Dixie bagging groceries and getting carts. I try to be nice to everyone and talk to them. Sometimes people bring their problems with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 11, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in Mobile where I was valedictorian at LeFlore High School in 2010, and now I am a social worker helping students there. I am only 30, but I have a bunch of kids who look to me for guidance and assistance. A lot of them call me mom, and this is where I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 10, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“After growing up in Brooklyn, I would never have thought Mobile would become my home. I was characterized as a gifted child. Excited about school, I wanted to start kindergarten when I was four years old. The minimum age was five, but my mom was head of the PTA and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 7, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I was an executive at a government communications company for almost 30 years. We worked with prison telephone systems that had higher levels of security. We recorded every call and had software that detected keywords in a conversation. Somebody was always planning...
