by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 12, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“The joke is that everyone in Birmingham is one degree from my phone number. Maybe I come home too much. But I want to pour back into a place that poured into me. Getting on television and cheering on Birmingham and Alabama matters to me. You can’t live in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 11, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“Camilla and I grew up on the same street in Daphne and went to the same church and school. When we met, I was 12, and she was 14 and a half. She was a pretty blonde girl, but girls don’t have much to do with boys who are that much younger. Our love affair got...
by Lynn Oldshue | Apr 5, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was 19 and on my way to the Vietnam War when I got a letter from my mother at the mail call: she said my draft notice came in the mail. I told her to write ’em back and tell ’em I’m busy right now. I went into the military because I wasn’t college...
