by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 5, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I am overweight because I have to eat so many words I have spoken. I said I would never live close to my children in their yard, I would never live in a trailer, and I would never have a woman preacher. I have eaten all of those words, but I am better for it. My kids...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 4, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“My daughter-in-law started calling me Daisy. My grandkids call me Grand Daisy. I am from Corinth, MS and grew up in Grenada. That was before they dammed up the lake. I was a tomboy, the only girl in three generations. I played with slingshots, roamed the clay pit...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 3, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I have been self-sufficient since I was 13. My dad left, so I took care of my mom and my sister. I made money cutting grass up and down Highway 43 in Mobile and did odd jobs to pay our house payments and buy groceries. I loved photography and bought a camera on...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 30, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“We are on a road trip to Fairhope. We live in a small town of about 600 people in Missouri. We have lived there all of our lives.” Becky “I work for a company out of Mobile, and they had a conference at the Grand Hotel around Christmas. My son and daughter came with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Nov 27, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I am a hairdresser in downtown Vicksburg and was going to have a celebration for being in business for 20 years. It was in March 2020, and I thought COVID would blow over, then we got a letter days before my party saying that everything was shutting down. COVID was...
