by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 8, 2022 | A Southern Soul
Robert: “I have done maintenance and cleaned walkways and bathrooms in Gatlinburg for about nine years. Tonya and I have already worked 80 hours this week, including 18 hours on New Year’s Eve. We are tired. There used to be at least four people doing this...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 2, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I am taking pictures in the rain of the bridge in Chattanooga for inspiration. I started painting a year ago. I was diagnosed with COVID the first week of January and couldn’t sit still for ten days. I got out my daughter’s Walmart paints and tried...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 25, 2021 | A Southern Soul
December 18, 2015 “We’ve been walking for nine days and have walked over 100 miles. We are trying to get to Tennessee to see my niece. I haven’t seen her in 11 years, and I promised her I would get there. We have been homeless for a year and don’t have a car, so we...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 24, 2021 | A Southern Soul
From Dec. 24, 2015 White shirt: “We met in jail and got out yesterday. Now we are all that we have. God puts us in places for a reason. He’s an alcoholic and I am a drug addict. I am not going to let him drink and he is not going to let me do drugs. We are...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 23, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am a speech-language pathologist and special education teacher. I taught in the public school system for 20 years, the last 10 in Fairhope. It got harder and harder with the paperwork taking away from the work I love. I am an animal person, and it has always been...
