Pop's 90th

Have you ever seen that movie Knocked Up? Well, there is this one scene where this guy Martin agrees to a bet, in which his friends will pay his rent if Martin can grow his beard for one year. The catch is, for the rest of the movie, all of Martin's friends ruthlessly make fun of his beard.

This is basically what it was like for me, being around my mother this weekend at my grandfather's 90th birthday party. She never missed an opportunity to let her displeasure be known, at least not when I