Dear Tom, My mom is a hard working woman who grew up in & out of foster homes. After she graduated high school, she joined the U.S. army reserves and served for 6 years during the peaceful administration of Bill Clinton. She went to school to study finance on the G.I. bill and that’s where […]
06/26/14- Dear Tom, My mother listens to your show and enjoys all of you very much but Huggy Lowdown is her favorite. She is the 3rd youngest of 8 children and she’s always cooking and cleaning her house because “you never know when company is coming over.” My mom stands 5 feet tall, weighs 105 […]
06/19/14 – Dear Tom, I would like to nominate my Mom, Elouise Parker as the Thursday’s Mom. My Mom has always been the type of person that she would take care of everyone but herself. Out of 7 children my little brother was born with Down’s Syndrome, he suffered a stroke two years ago, which […]
06/05/14 – Dear Tom, My mom Elaine is really my great-aunt. She adopted my brother Tyreke and me back in 2003 when I was just one year old. She raised her two children all by herself and they have blessed her 7 grandchildren. I am 12 now and my brother is 15 and she does […]
05/29/14 – Dear Tom, My mom has always gone above and beyond her motherly duties to ensure my brother and I am always taken care of. She is the oldest daughter of 9 siblings and had to stop attending school when she was in elementary school to help take care of them. She works with […]
05/22/14 – Dear Tom, My name is Mary I am 14 years old. I’m writing you because my mother is a single mom raising my little sister and me all by herself. My mom is a Care Coordinator – she works with families that have mentally ill children. She is in her car all day […]
05/15/14- Dear Tom, My daughter has been raising four boys as a single parent. She works at Quest Diagnostics while maintaining her household and fixes things around the house. Every day, she takes her baby to daycare, takes them to and from school and all of their after school activities like basketball practice and football […]
05/08/14- Dear Tom, My Mom has a big family – it’s so big, that when we all go out to eat – we have to call ahead. She is the fifth born out of 10 children…and I am the second of 6 kids in her immediate family made up of 4 girls and 2 boys. […]
05/01/14 – Dear Tom, Our parents raised six children and Della is the second oldest and the only daughter – so you can only imagine how hard it was for any guy who wanted to try to date her. Della was a cheerleader in high school – and at 4 feet 11 inches tall, she […]
04/24/14 – Dear Tom, My mom has been married to my dad for 24 years. She is the youngest of 10 siblings, the mother of four and has four grandchildren. When we were children, she opened up daycare’s so she could raise us and still have an income. She suffered a great loss three years […]
04/17/14- Dear Tom, My mom is a phenomenal woman who drove the city bus for 34 years. her regulars called her “momma Gwen” and her favorite route was the number 7 – that’s the one that goes past all the museums, the botanic gardens, the zoo and the university – she calls it “the scenic […]
04/10/14 – Dear Tom, My mom is the oldest of six kids, has raised three children of her own, and currently has four grandchildren. She has been in the medical field for over 33 years – starting as a nurse’s aide and has worked as a registered nurse since 1991 in labor and delivery. She lost her […]
