by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 14, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I moved to Fairhope my senior year of high school. I got a job after graduation because college was too much. I work at Winn Dixie bagging groceries and getting carts. I try to be nice to everyone and talk to them. Sometimes people bring their problems with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 11, 2022 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in Mobile where I was valedictorian at LeFlore High School in 2010, and now I am a social worker helping students there. I am only 30, but I have a bunch of kids who look to me for guidance and assistance. A lot of them call me mom, and this is where I...
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...
