by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 17, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“My mom became a photographer and that is how I got into photography. I remember spinning around in a little green dress and riding my bike really fast because my mom was doing a stop action class. When I was little, I dreamed of changing the world and thought...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 16, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“My father was into weed and cocaine and abusive to my mother. He had a children’s photography studio at home and behind the studio was a hidden door that led to a room with two freezers full of cocaine. My mother was a bartender and daddy played music in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 15, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I had good parents who got along well. I watched Jerry Springer and wondered how could those ladies be so dumb? I thought domestic abuse only happened to trashy people. I never thought it could happen to me. I met my first husband in college and it proceeded...
by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 14, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I am 43 and have been holding all of this inside for so long. The abusive relationships started when I was in 10th grade. I got pregnant the next year and my baby’s daddy was my abuser. He found a branch that fell off a tree, peeled the bark off, shellacked it,...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 26, 2018 | A Southern Soul
I am taking a couple of weeks off from Souls to lock down and write a series about domestic violence for Lagniappe in Mobile. Stories of victims and abusers, the causes, why victims stay, the effects on kids and the community and how we can all help. Will re-post...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 25, 2018 | A Southern Soul
“I am in my fourth year of residency in general surgery and I work in a trauma unit in an emergency room. I went to med school because I was infatuated with the heart and cardiac disease and wanted to be a cardiologist. Then I went to Liberia in West Africa on a...
