by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 16, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“Columbus is known as ‘The Friendly City,’ and at Quirky Antiques, you will discover why. My dog’s name is Senorita. When I adopted her, her name was PeeWee. I thought that was bad for her self-image. Would you want to be called PeeWee? I changed it to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 10, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I’m one of the founders of The Refuge in Philadelphia, MS. It’s a day program for special-needs adults and youth. My husband and I adopted our daughter about eight years ago. She’ll be 20 this year. When she was 13, we saw there were no care options as she got older....
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 3, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was always this person; I was just in a bad environment. I grew up in Mobile and thought I was going to be a hairdresser. I was a good student through middle school, but i got pregnant when I was 15. I was going to a new school, and it was a different scene....
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 2, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“My dad was in the Army, in the 11th Airborne Division. They rotated from Fort Campbell, Kentucky over to Augsburg, Germany in 1956, and then back again in ’57. The SS United States transported those soldiers and families back home. That’s how we ended up on the...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 28, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“Sometimes you have to believe in someone else’s belief in you before you can believe in yourself. People would tell me, ‘You’re a bonafide leader.’ And I’m like, ‘How? I dropped out of school, dude. I was smoking weed and doing all this crazy stuff just to fit in....
