Dear Tom: My name is Sylita and I am a single foster parent of two. My children are sister and brother, two and three years-old. I have had my little girl since she was four months-old and my boy from sixteen months. I never knew what i was missing not being a parent until i […]
Dear Mr. Joyner, I operate a senior activity center that has been in operation for two years. Daily we have from 15-25 seniors; ranging in age from 60-94 years-old and the majority of them are seriously ill and disabled. If it were not for our center, many would be home alone without any interaction with […]
Dear Mr. Joyner: My name is Renee Magee and my Christmas wish is for my husband, Ricky Magee sr. to have help with getting the kitchen up and running in our home. My family and I were displaced during hurricane Katrina back in 2005 and have spent the following years trying to get back on […]
Dear Mr. Joyner: It would be a sincere honor if you would grant a Christmas wish to a phenomenal, hardworking and caring woman named, Melissa Thomas. We are her cadets at the university of Alabama at Birmingham army ROTC program. She is like a momma to all of us and inspires us to keep our […]
Dear Tom: I now live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but I often drive to Chicago to visit my father and little brother who live there. A few weeks ago, i was in Illinois attending a funeral, staying at my dad’s home. During my visit heavy rains flooded his basement destroying a lot of his belongings. Tom, […]
I am writing about my 24 year-old son, Ken Brown. He recently got married in March to a young lady who already had two small children. To add to their joy they are expecting a baby boy on July 10, they are going to name him, Kenneth Brown, III. Tom, Ken is working full-time at […]
Hello Mr. Joyner: My name is Gwendolyn Washington and i would like to request a Christmas Wish for my husband, brennan. After a successful career in information technology, Brennan has been heavily involved in helping to build local food systems in Georgia. Our farm, Phoenix Gardens has been recognized as a shining example of urban […]
Hello Mr. Joyner: My name is Tracey Jackson and I am a forty-one year-old, retired military reservist who served her country in 2003-2004 in Iraq. i am also a single mother of four, with two daughters in college, a fifteen year-old son and a two-year old toddler boy. In 2008, i allowed my cousin to […]
hello Mr. Joyner: My name is Tai-yana Spencer and my twin brother, Tyler and I would like to nominate our mother, Vicki White for a Christmas Wish. we are twenty-one years-old and as far back as we can remember, our mother has been the greatest joy of our lives. she always encouraged us to follow […]
Dear Tom: I am a parent of a player of the Whites Creek Cobras baseball team. I am writing today asking for a Christmas Wish for these boys. I feel they have gotten the short end of the stick. The team is not funded by the school and parents have to come out of pocket […]
Dear Tom Joyner: My name is Indya and I am ten years-old. Mr. Joyner, can you help my grandmother to get a stove and a dishwasher. She has raised six foster kids—five boys and one girl and two granddaughters, which is me and my older sister. Grandma also takes care of her older brother who […]
Dear Tom: My Christmas wish is for my daughter, Laqueenia Brown. Queenie, as she is affectionately known, is an amazing young lady. She is my miracle baby surviving a stroke at birth that could have left her blind, but didn’t. As a senior in high school, she was diagnosed with lupus and had to miss […]
