by Doug Thompson | May 30, 2017 | Musings
Sherry Johnson, age 11, found herself pregnant after rapes by a minister and a 20-year-old member of her church. “I guess you’re just going to get married,” Johnson’s mother told her. In Florida, it is legal for an 11-year-old to get married as...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 15, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Nobody really gave us a chance: The once-married, hard-living and even harder-drinking newspaperman and the young actress who made a name for herself as the resident heroine on the Goldenrod Showboat in St. Louis. When they started dating, the skeptics said he was...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 15, 2009 | Featured, Musings
Thirty years. Three decades. Three hundred and sixty months. One thousand, five hundred and sixty weeks or 10,957 days. Nobody expected it to last, this union of a hard-drinking, hard-living newspaperman and an actress from St. Louis — both wary from failed...
