The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

My father has been a rock for me every since.