More Southern Souls
I still live how Mama taught me: share everything I have to lift others up
“I was born in Bentonia in 1956. My dad was a sharecropper until my parents moved to Yazoo City, then my mother worked...
My favorite saying is ‘can’t never could do nothing.’
“I was born in 1920. There were six kids in my family. My daddy nicknamed everyone and called me Sister Sue after a...
Start small. Just get started
“Swimming at night, it was hard staying on course from Fairhope to Fort Morgan. I got off a couple of times, but when...
I am trying to swim Mobile Bay as part of training and qualifying to swim the English Channel
“I am a professor at Auburn. I started competing in triathlons with running, cycling, and swimming when I was 38. My...
My message has always been ‘a change is going to come’
“I grew up in Pensacola. My father was a Methodist pastor and was transferred to a church in Montgomery. I stayed with...
My job is to love people and if someone is hungry, let’s feed them
“I was shy and sensitive when I was young. If I saw someone being picked on, it broke my heart, but I wasn't brave...
Stepping out of the kitchen, I realized I wasn’t the only one struggling in restaurants
“My mom was a great cook and fed the family. After my parents divorced, I lived with my dad. He tried to make dinner...
What’s good for you is good for me
“I grew up in Carroll County in the hills beyond the Mississippi Delta. My father was the president of two banks. He...
These are my grandkids, and I hope to be a good influence on them
“I am an Uber driver in New Orleans. These are pictures of my grandkids. We all live in Thibodaux, and I see them all...
We make life-size dolls at the end of the year
“We make life-size dolls at the end of the year and set them on the porch or outside the front of the house. We burn...
Everyone has a disability, you just can’t always see it
“I grew up in Hueytown, Alabama on the Warrior River. I am legally blind, have brain damage, epilepsy, and cerebral...
I turned 89 last week; I have cared for people my whole life
“I turned 89 last Saturday. I worked in home health and cared for people my whole life. I worked at the old Mobile...