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....
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 27, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“Three years ago, I didn’t have this frame of mind. I didn’t have a whole lot of finances. I was blundering through life, just trying to figure it out. Waiting on what I thought was an opportunity. Not knowing sometimes you’ve got to make an opportunity. They don’t...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 20, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Foley. My grandfather was the local butcher, and he had a grocery store just off Highway 98. I went to school here my whole life, but I was a bit of an anomaly. Into musical theater, and just a little different. I wanted to get out and see what the rest...
