by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 7, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My grandfather opened this store in 1922. 99 years ago. He grew up in Germany, but his mother died and his father remarried. My grandfather couldn’t get along with his stepmother so he took a job as a cook on a ship to get away. He was 15 years old. The...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 3, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am from Ohio. I went to Oklahoma and drilled gas wells. I lived with my wife and two young children in a 22-foot travel trailer. Reaganomics shut down drilling. In 1983, I joined the Marine Corps. I went to Beirut and North Africa. I came down to work in the...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 28, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I’ve always been drawn to the special needs population. I was involved in a program in my high school that trained intellectually delayed teenagers to work at a nearby plant so they would have a job when they graduated. When I moved to Mobile for college,...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 21, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My name is Wren, and I am eight years old. I like wearing capes and pretending to be a bat and that I can fly. Or I pretend that I am a Ninja. I have another cape with my name on it. I live in Massachusetts and we have been here for a few months while my dad works. I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 20, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“The name of my balloon is Pondemonium. I live in Colorado and have been ballooning for thirty years. I had three teenage boys and was beginning to think I couldn’t do anything right. My life was all about boys. I needed my own thing. I started crewing for a hot...
