Career
Songe reported on candidates running for local offices during the 1994 election year. In less than 90 days she was hired as a general assignment reporter. Songe subsequently served as president of the Mid-South chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists.
Songe moved her employment in 1996 to The Daily News Publishing Company, Memphis, covering law and government issues and writing a weekly feature in the Focus section for the daily newspaper.
As the law and government reporter her article, “Tie-breaking seat produces protracted selection process,” November 20, 1996, described the choice of Shelby County Commissioner Morris Fair as the replacement for outgoing Commissioner Bill Gibbons, and “Seeking shoes,” January
31, 1997, featured unintended consequences of Tennessee’s welfare reform program, Families First, that required children to attend school on a daily basis. However, some impoverished families did not have enough shoes to go around.
So siblings shared pairs of shoes and could only attend classes on alternating days.
In her personal life as Songe’s care of abandoned canines increased she moved from the city to additional land in a neighboring county where she went to work for the Fayette County Review, a now defunct weekly newspaper. Hired as a feature editor by The Southern Sentinel, Ripley, Mississippi, in 1997, Songe wrote a weekly column, under the title Perceptions, until 1999. Learning that he was to be sold in 30 days, she purchased him for $40, and brought him home.
The young bull, named Sonny, was the subject of several columns, and later became the featured protagonist in her blog.
While working as a contract writer and photographer for The Amory Advertiser, Songe’s photo of a hobo and his traveling German Shepherd took second place in the Mississippi Press Association 2000 Better Newspaper Contest Editorial Division A, presented June 16, 2001. In the process she reveals her spiritual journey that leads to her faith as a Christian.
Recent entries begin with a devotional passage. A published author Songe’s short story about Sonny appears in Central Committee Writers Shorts II Our Pets – Our Family, an anthology of Christian writers’ works by Amazing Phrase Publishing of Collierville, Tennessee
