The tears are welling in my eyes. I am looking back over four years and remembering the losses and the tragedies living life can present. I am remembering the beauty and the splendor of these four years. Have you stopped and listened to your heart lately? This world, this moment in time moves so fast onto the next moment in time-it is seldom anyone takes a moment to stop to feel their existence.

Prompted by a recent “Mosaic” article, Kevin Canessa Jr., 1997 Salve graduate and professional blogger, wrote of his experiences as an undergraduate and how Sister Therese Antone’s university involvement has strengthened his appreciation of his alma mater.

Easy Street; it’s a place that everyone wishes they can drive to and stay for a little while. Sometimes Easy Street finds its way to us after periods of difficulty, while other times we stubble upon it when we least expect it. Life on Easy Street seems to just roll off our tongues like dice off our fingertips at a Roulette table.

Students in Dr. Jameson Chace’s “Humans and Their Environment” class began Friday like any other. However, they did not know that afternoon they would all become partners in a fishing company for the next 10 years. The class gathered in Jazzman’s Café to embark on their fishing career.

Recently, I have had an increase in my viewing of reality television shows. This may be in part to the fact that every other channel has some sort of reality based show. From “The Soup” on E, “The Moment of Truth ” on Fox, and any dance, song, modeling, dating, cooking competition shows, it is clear that America is obsessed with other people’s lives.