07/30/14 – Dear Tom, I volunteer here in Atlanta by serving meals at several shelters. I also follow the families when they are released from the shelters to make sure their situations are so that they won’t have to return. I met Emlyn Michel Edwards and her five wonderful children during her rough journey at […]
07/23/14- Today’s Wednesday Christmas Winner is Bruce Wade
07/16/14 – Dear Tom, I am a 39-year-old, single mom of three children; a daughter, ten and two sons, twelve and seventeen. My kids and i have been through so much lately. Recently, we suffered the loss of two, loving aunts close together, who were very involved in our family. Then, we had to move […]
07/09/14- Dear Tom, My name is Dorothy Calhoun and I am a fifty-five year-old single mother, aunt and proud grandmother writing to you with a Christmas wish. I was the second daughter of five sisters. I lost my younger sister in 2003, my oldest sister in 2010 and then our mother in April of this year, […]
07/02/14 – Dear Tom, My Aunt Christine is a unique virtuous woman, always finding time to help others in need. She is a faithful Christian and loves to praise the lord. Aunt Christine was a mother, wife, and seamstress; as well as very active in her community prior to her battle with diabetes. Her struggle […]
06/25/14 – Dear Tom, I am submitting to you my Wednesday Christmas wish. On March 18, 2014 my home caught fire with me, my son, grandson, his mother and my godson in it. I truly thank god that they weren’t injured. I myself was burned on my face, neck, and hand and spent two weeks […]
06/18/14 – Dear Tom, I have been a teacher in Florida for 10 years. Last year, after being at the same school for 8 years, a friend that I worked with gave me the opportunity to help her open a charter school. This promotion would move me from the classroom to administration—something that i have always […]
06/11/14- Dear Tom, My name is Nedra Lawrence and I am writing you on behalf of a very close, dear friend of mine for many years, Ventura (Butch) Leak. Ventura, at sixty-seven, is one of the last, living, original members of the world renowned vocal group “the drifters.” as second tenor and baritone,he helped record such […]
05/28/14- Dear Tom, I am a 52 year-old black woman whom God has blessed to walk and stand again after severe diabetes made me disabled. Recently, I lost more than 100 pounds, dropping from 400 to 265. I did it naturally without surgery or medications. I plan on losing more weight until I reach my […]
05/21/14 – Dear Tom, My nephew, Ty is a sweet, nine year-old with special needs. He was born with several disabilities and had many corrective surgeries. As an infant he had a stroke leaving one side of his body partially paralyzed. Soon, he will have eye surgery and will wear an orthopedic device for his […]
05/14/14- Dear Mr. Joyner, My name is Joya and I’m 10 years-old. I want to know if you can grant my mom an early Christmas wish please. My mom is a single mother and she has been battling diabetes real bad. In March, she was in the hospital for a week and lost her job. My […]
05/07/14- Dear Tom, Everyone describes my mother as the sweetest person they have ever met and I wholeheartedly agree, but not just because she’s my mother and I’m biased. She truly is always giving of herself for her children, grandchild, family, friends and church. Tom, both my mother and father worked for the same textile […]
