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By E. Corinne Byrd

This September we're faced with a crucial decision. And not just

BIRTHS

On a recent trip to Italy, I picked up some Italian, especially since I look more like an Italian expatriate than an American of Italian descent. That must be the case, because everywhere I went, Italians kept approaching me and speaking rapidly in Italian or, in other cases, like in the grocery store, when I put my fruit directly in the basket as we do in the U.S. without weighing it and pricing it first, yelling at me.

W.E.R.C., the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center in Morgan Hill, is accepting applications for volunteers who are available to work during the morning on Monday, Wednesday or Saturday. Duties include cleaning, feeding, and caring for injured, orphaned and sick native wildlife. All volunteers are required to be at least 16 years old. Volunteers working at our site work a 3-hour shift, at least once a week and are asked to make a four-month commitment. The orientation session will be held on June 9th, 2012.

School of Rock

It is March 1963. The place: the depths of Glen Canyon in Arizona.  An epic is being filmed. George Stevens is directing “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” Charlton Heston as John the Baptist is finishing filming for the day. He has a  wet suit under his costume (he had been doing scenes at the Crossing of The Father’s, where Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet). He has been standing in cold, waist high water all day (enacting the baptizing of Jesus.) He is rushing to catch the movie company’s leased DC3 for Burbank, out of the airport under construction in Page, Ariz. before daylight turns into a swampy black night, with no lights installed yet on the runway.

In an ideal world men and women could follow the teaching of

I haven't wanted to talk to anyone about this, but this year,