Dear Tom, My mother has been single parent for most of my life. After my parents were divorced, she did whatever was necessary to provide for my brother and I – and she did it entirely on her own. She knew that a good education was the key to success. So once we were in […]
Dear Tom, My mom put her life on hold after my youngest sister was born. My dad left us and she had to drop out of college to begin raising 3 girls and a boy on her own. We didn’t have our wants but we most certainly had all of our needs met. After work, […]
Dear Tom, My baby daughter, Yolanda, was 26-years-old when my oldest daughter, Rolinda, discovered she had cancer. Yolanda stepped in to care for Rolinda's children – driving them to school, to their extra-curricular activities and to church. She also transported Rolinda and me to the radiation treatments and still managed to work a full-time job […]
Dear Tom, First let me tell you how blessed I am to be part of such a wonderful family. I am the proud daughter-in-law of Christine Ann Thomas. I am married to her son Leonard and he has two sisters: Crystal and Yolanda. We call her “Ann” and she’s an old school grandma – she […]
Dear Tom, In 1988, my family was at the park when my dad passed out. My mom, being a nurse, tried giving him C.P.R but to no avail. He died at the age of 35, making my mom widow raising 3 kids on her own. From then on, she would work the night shift […]
Today's "Thursday Morning Mom" is Angela Clemons of Kansas City.
Dear Tom, My mom is the mother of 5 but in 2007; she adopted my three nieces after their parents died. These were the daughters of her youngest son and she didn’t want them put into the system. More times then i can count, she has she gone without to make sure that her children […]
Dear Tom, My wife Dawn was the single mother of 2 girls when I met her — Shyler and Shytrell. I had a son from a previous marriage – Marcus. It was at a New Year’s Eve Party…1994 going into 95…and we’ve been together ever since. She was going to nursing school but after we […]
Dear Tom, My sister Pamela is the devoted mom of two and – as of last month – a grandmother to a beautiful baby boy. She works as a Psychiatric Therapist at Drexel University and she is always helping people. One time, she took in my niece’s family of 4 after they lost her home. […]
Dear Tom and Family, I have a cousin, Shantelle Wells who epitomizes what Maya Angelou describes as a "Phenomenal Woman". She is a mother of two children Alan, 11 and Bri O'nna 17. She was a teenage mother and moved out of her parents’ home by age 18. She has always been independent, worked the […]
