It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.