06/04/14 – Dear Tom, My husband and I were married in a small ceremony on august 15, 2013 in our church rectory with the pastor, our three children, my parents and our bridal party. We counseled with our pastor previously and because we lived together already we decided to marry to be right in god’s […]
04/09/14 – Dear Tom, I am sending you this letter in hopes that you will pick my sister Benita Green for a Christmas wish. Our mother had 10 children with Benita being the oldest. Twenty-five years ago, Benita made a commitment to our mother to help her care for our little sister, Shayla who is […]
04/02/14 – Dear Tom, My name is Clarence Lewis from Flint, Michigan and I am a forty-eight year-old man with stage-4 colon cancer. On April 27th, my wife and I have our flying tickets to Washington, DC where I am scheduled for surgery on May 1st at Med Star Washington Hospital Center with an eexpert […]
03/26/14- Dear Tom: My name is Kyi (ki-e) Branch. Students in DC and PG county know me as “officer snacks” where I dress in a big, police dog costume and hand out nutritious snacks to the children of the community in our fight to end hunger. My husband, Jonathan Branch is a DC police sergeant who works to inform children about the […]
03/19/14- Dear Tom: Our sister Vickie Ashford is the 10th of 11 children born to Willetta Ashford. Nine years ago, Vickie asked her employer of 22 years if there was any way possible that she could work from home to take care of our now 87-year old mother. Mom suffers from Parkinson’s disease, a chronic […]
