in the land of exciting developments, I need recommendations for good mortgage brokers/originators.  I would like to talk to several different people, so I want as many suggestions as possible. If anybody has experience working with a mortgage broker who was especially helpful with a multi-family house or with a mortgage on which more than the ( Read more... )

After one of those epically long travel experiences in which you miss your connection and they change your flight multiple times and then lose your luggage, we are home in Boston.  (We were supposed to get in Sunday late evening, actually got in last night just before 7.  Two of our three missing bags are supposed to be delivered to us later this ( Read more... )

As faithful readers may know, Aatish and I are leaving for India to week from today. (I feel like, really, that previous sentence should be All in Caps, Followed by Many Exclamation Points, but You Get the Idea ( Read more... )

yesterday, I was grateful for the day at the beach that I had been day dreaming of all week, complete with cider donuts from Russell's Orchard and digging in the sand with my beloved. There is something ineffably wonderful about being able to locate the desire to do something and then execute a plan to make it happen.That is, I suppose, in general ( Read more... )

After the never-ending travel yesterday I was glad for a quieter day on this end, where nothing much was expected of me and I didn't have to be in charge of organizing anything of much importance.  There was sleeping in, breakfast at a local diner, web-surfing, work, and time with family and friends.  I got to see the newly purchased home of one of ( Read more... )

Some time last week I ran into tahnan at the Diesel while Tish was being valiant and going home to get the car while it was pouring out. I was telling tahnan about Tish's car, Mata Hari, who is sleek and gray and has a talking GPS system which frequently rescues Tish from his own lack of a sense of direction.
"I wouldn't name a car Mata Hari" said tahnan. "You'd ( Read more... )