by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 10, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“After growing up in Brooklyn, I would never have thought Mobile would become my home. I was characterized as a gifted child. Excited about school, I wanted to start kindergarten when I was four years old. The minimum age was five, but my mom was head of the PTA and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 7, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I was an executive at a government communications company for almost 30 years. We worked with prison telephone systems that had higher levels of security. We recorded every call and had software that detected keywords in a conversation. Somebody was always planning...
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...
