by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 4, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We were in Branson, Missouri. My grandpa has a farm up there. He had a stroke and doesn’t get around so much. Every summer I go up there and pull in his hay and plow his fields. Then we go back to Florida for the winter. He isn’t doing well and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 3, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Mobile. My mom is a retired nurse. She was the school nurse at Bishop State. I helped my her care for my grandmother when I was in high school and caregiving started from there. I majored in nursing and went to the University of Mobile. In my last...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 2, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“He is four and wants to be an astronaut. His name is Otto and we call him Ottonaut. He became obsessed with space two years ago when he started playing space games on his iPad. He tells us facts about the moons of Uranus and planets made of hydrogen. We look these up...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 2, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I survived the Coronavirus. Most of my family got it, but took good care of ourselves and are much better now. God created me with grit. My biological father was murdered by his mother’s boyfriend. They were drinking and got into an argument. The man just tried...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 1, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Jackson, Alabama. I am a minority, low-income, first-generation college student. In high school, I was in the gifted program which gave me experiences that opened my mine to the world when we traveled to Washington D.C. and New York City. Without...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 31, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I was born and raised in Bay Minette and started working at the USS Alabama out of high school. My brother cut grass and I came in after he did. I went into the interview for a maintenance job and they asked me if I was scared of heights, how is my back, and if can I...
