A dream deferred in Houston Long before Kenny Rogers became one of the most recognizable voices in American popular music, his mother Lucille Lois Hester Rogers lived a life defined by work, duty, and narrow geography. In Houston, Texas, she raised eight children in San Felipe Courts, a federal housing project, stretching every dollar and […]
A childhood compressed into three bedrooms In the 1940s, the Rogers family closed each night on a reality that would have tested anyone’s patience: ten people in a standard three-bedroom apartment at Houston’s San Felipe Courts federal housing project. Floyd and Lucille Rogers were raising eight children there—Leland, Billy, Sandy, Kenneth, Geralyn, Barbara, Roy, and […]
In an effort to bring you up-to-date on the latest “Teen Mom” news, The Ashley brings you the Teen Mom News Pile. Here are some of the major (and minor but interesting) ‘Teen Mom’-related things that happened over the last week or so…
Jenelle Evans recently gave fans an update on what’s been happening in her son Jace’s life since he went back to live with her mom Barbara several months ago. The ‘Teen Mom’ star says Jace has his sights on TV and Internet fame.
My father arrived at my wedding forty-three minutes late, with lipstick on his collar and a threat already forming on his lips. Then he saw the groom standing beside me and stopped so abruptly that his mistress collided with his back. Twenty minutes earlier, his assistant had found him in the hotel’s private lounge. “Chairman, […]