01/08/15- Dear Tom, Howdy to Sybil and Jay. First let me thank you guys for helping me start each morning off right by providing a healthy dose of laughter, good music and up to the minute current events. Second, I would like to nominate my sister Sheryl Wright as your Thursday morning mom. My […]
12/18/14 – Dear Tom, My wife might stand 4 feet 11, but she has a very big heart. She was a single mom who raised her daughter on her own and did an excellent job. Her little girl is all grown up – 36 and married but there aren’t any grandkids yet! I met […]
12/11/14 – Dear Tom, My 29-year-old daughter is a single mom who graduated from nursing school with honors while raising her 3 boys: Michael is 11, Malik is 9 and Malakai is 2. Her dad helped her with the kids while she went to school and worked…until last year. He suffered a stroke, became […]
12/04/14 – Dear Tom, My mom migrated to New York City from Jamaica back in 1983. my grandmother took care of my 2 sisters and me while my mother worked 2 to 3 jobs at a time – not only to make ends meet for herself…but to also send money back to her mother […]
11/20/14 – Dear Tom, My mom was born in Cleveland, graduated from Kent state in 1991 then moved to Pontiac, Michigan where she worked for the city for 17 years. She was laid off in 2009 and then in 2011, she took a job opportunity working on the event planning committee for Fort Worth, […]
Dear Tom, My mother Jennifer Gail Robertson is the best nominee for your Thursday Morning Mom. She raised me and my twin brother alone. Working 2 and sometimes 3 jobs to raise both of us and still had time to read us a bedtime story almost every night. To show you how good my […]
11/06/14- Dear Tom, My mom’s name is Parthenia but everyone calls her Tina. She retired early at the age of 62. She was a CNA. who worked with senior citizens and mentally challenged adults. She raised my 2 sisters and me all by herself. She was tough on us but it was only because […]
For iPhone: 10/30/14 – Dear Tom, Dee-Dee is the mother of 4, originally from the Bronx where she worked as a special education teacher. She moved down to Tampa over 20 years ago and is employed as a social work case manager and has fostered over 40 children since i have known her. Five […]
For iPhone: 10/23/14 – Dear Tom, For 9 years and counting my mom has been helping the people of Camden without asking anything in return with a ministry she started called “Women On The Move” she helps the homeless find shelter she helps people do their resumes and find jobs she takes the elderly […]
For iPhone: 10/16/14 – Dear Tom, My mother has been nothing but an inspiration to my life. She raised my brother and me all by herself providing for us by working for a cleaning service full time and she took in a part time job. The part time job eventually became a full time […]
10/09/14 – Dear Tom, My mom is a class of ’77 graduate of Bethune-Cookman University. She worked at Boeing Helicopters for 28 years until she was forced to retire due to some health problems related to a heart procedure back in April. Like all of us, she had a lot of ups and downs in […]
10/02/14 – Dear Tom, My mother raised 4 children all on her own. We are all grown up now – my older sister is 31 and she has 5 kids. My brother is 28 and he has 3 kids. I am 23 and my little sister is 21 and we don’t plan on having kids […]
