I look in the mirror after another seemingly difficult day and I think to myself damn I hate you right now, this moment. I can forgive that, eventually, I think. I pull my hands through my wet, tangled hair, look at my dark, sometimes sad eyes, and I know that at the end of this particular day that in truth it is exhausting to be honest with myself and be who I was born to be.

How far would you go in the name of love? Would you send the one you admire a pizza with an M&M message on top? Write a message in the sky? Climb to the top of Mount Everest? Or how about drive from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida nonstop?

NASA astronaut, Lisa Marie Nowak drove just short of one thousand miles to Orlando, Florida from Houston, Texas in effort to scare-off fellow comrade, Colleen Shipman from pursuing “her man”, Bill Oefelein.

On February 26, Jonathan Kozol, respected author and educator, spoke to over 300 attendees of the Salve community on the inequalities that exist in public education today.

Kozol chronicled his journey to sixty public schools in eleven states across the country, only to discover that racial segregation of African American and Latino children still occurs today.

The road stretches beyond us as my twin and I drive toward the ocean. We let the music fill our cracked hearts. Another fight, another slammed door, another tear shed, and another dysfunctional family born. Kariana turns the volume up higher and we let the music seep through us because there are no words for our numbness and there is no destination for our tears, no other warm home to walk into, just each other, the road and the ocean waves.

Students and faculty eagerly pull up their sleeves for a blood drive on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, raising 94 pints to help people in need.

The blood drive was put on by the American Red Cross. Salve Students and faculty exceeded expectations of the goal set by the Red Cross of 35 to 45 pints of blood, by more than doubling that amount with a grand total of 94 pints.