by Lynn Oldshue | May 13, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I wrote a poem when I was three. It was “A Foot Called Belly Button” and was published in the newspaper. I have always loved words. I come from a privileged family, go to a privileged school and live in a privileged area. I realize that is not how the world...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 12, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“We are waiting outside Thomas Hospital for our first grandbaby to be born. It is a nice afternoon and you do what you have to do. We have been Facetiming with them. They gave her an epidural and her water just broke. They are in the fourth window over and our son...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 11, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“My great-great grandfather, Mike Houston was born in Stockton, Alabama in 1863, and moved to Magnolia Springs with his mother, a sharecropper, after Emancipation. He worked as a caretaker for a family in Point Clear that taught him business skills. He became a...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 10, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I was born and raised in Happy Hills. I graduated from Alabama A&M and Cumberland School of Law, but growing up in Happy Hills was the best education I had. It taught me not just about crime, drugs, violence, and poverty. It taught me about humanness,...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 9, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“I was working as a location coordinator for a movie shooting here. We wrapped out a little early because of the Coronavirus. After we wrapped, I was exhausted and starting feeling funky. I saw spots on my tonsils and thought it was strep. I got a strep test and...
by Lynn Oldshue | May 8, 2020 | A Southern Soul
“Growing up in a broken home in Fairhope, I saw my parents fight all of the time. Some days the abuse was so bad that my grandmother met me at the bus stop and took me away. My parents divorced, but by age 16, I was in my own abusive relationship. I had my first child...
