After receiving a really touching e-mail from a reader, I sent my mom an e-mail with both yesterday's post and a copy of the email I'd received. I felt like she should read it.

My dad had beanten me to the chase. He and my mom are still very close, and he reads up on me occasionally. Daily? I'm not sure. Here is the e-mail I got from her, because it made me cry:

"Actually, yesterday your father found this and sent it to me. Apparently he knows more about this blog stuff than I do. Anyway, I read it and cried - right at my desk - right in front of everyone. Then I showed it to Mack last night and he sat in the big chair and cried more than I did.

I think I'll print this out and put it in the drawer where I keep "forever" things. That way any time I want to feel really good, I'll know right where to go.

Money or no money, I don't think I would change a thing about the last 22 years - would you?

I love you and thanks for making my day, week, and month."