I have to acknowledge my crazy side or it will overcome me

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 28, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“I made this. I make Halloween and Mardi Gras costumes. I do pottery too. This is old jewelry that I fastened the clay onto. I found the eyes and took it from there. I can’t sew, but I can hot glue like crazy. I started this about two weeks ago and it went...

My songwriting and singing are better in some ways because I am not messed up anymore

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 27, 2016 | A Southern Soul

I started playing the piano when I was four. My dad put extensions on the pedals so I could play. I was always drawn to music, but I never thought I would be a professional musician. I played with Greg Allman on his first two tours. I was playing solo too. I am...

I won’t cut corners or cut anything short because if you do that, deep down you are doing it for the wrong reason

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 26, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“Art is important in Mobile but it can be more expressive than a sunset or a pier. Life is more than what you just see on the surface. It is how you interpret things and how things affect you. Art is an opinion and it is going to catch Mobile up and bring us...

I am a dyslexia therapist because my little boy has dyslexia. I opened a school to help other kids

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 24, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“He came to visit me from Ocean Springs.” “I teach high school biology. Teaching gives me a chance to go backpacking and hiking in the Rocky Mountains every summer. I went to Canyonlands and Moab a few weeks ago. I love the West.” “I was...

The way my neck broke, I was supposed to be in a wheelchair, or dead. I am neither and there is a reason why

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 23, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“I grew up in Mobile and have been working at Wintzell’s for five years since I was 15. I started out working in the dish room, but one night they didn’t have someone to shuck oysters and I did it and figured it out. I had the ambition to go into the...