by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 22, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“My husband Harold and I will be married 21 years on December 21. He is 87 and I am 71. When we got married, I was 50 and he was 66. We are still young people and God has blessed us. I am happy working at 71 and I am subsidizing our income. Each day when I go...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 22, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“My dad is an artist and paints portraits. It’s ironic that I don’t like to paint, I just like to draw and sketch. I don’t like coloring because black and white is better, it is more classic. I am the spelling bee winner at my school. My...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 22, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“I am from Wisconsin. I am a cheesehead.” “I have lived in Daphne for 4 years.” “But her heart is still in Wisconsin.” “No mom, my heart is not in Wisconsin. I haven’t lived there in 30 years.” “My favorite...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 21, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“I am getting Dollarweed. I add water and sugar and make it a juice. It is very good and healthy. It is good for blood circulation. The Dollarweed is bigger here than in Vietnam. I have been living here for 13 years. I didn’t speak English when we moved...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 21, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“I grow all of the greens and everything here is homegrown. I was born and raised on a farm in Monroe County. My dad was a sharecropper. I will be 72 in March and I don’t want to go home and sit. I meet a lot of people out here. Sometimes I have 5 or 6...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 20, 2015 | A Southern Soul
“I cut and colored her hair about a month ago.” “It was long and scraggly and I put it in a ponytail and he chopped it off. I wasn’t scared. It will grow back out.” “I do my own hair too.” “He just got a new Black...
