ben brantley’s blog

Conforming loans are priced better than non-conforming. That’s the moral for today.

Ever have a few of those days where you feel like you swim as hard as you can and you just BARELY are keeping up with all the things you’re “supposed” to do? That’s how it’s been this Tuesday and Wednesday, like most of my Tuesdays and Wednesdays lately. If I didn’t have [...]

Today we took the afternoon and went to the beach, one of the things we’ll miss when we move to the center of the U.S. It was cool and breezy, but also sunny, and we found a dog beach at Huntington that was crawling with soggy pups chasing all manner of balls into the [...]

Today we went to the annual Caltech ice skating exhibition just two blocks away at our local ice rink. Yes, we can have an ice rink even when it’s 85 degrees and sunny in April! Best of all, we couldn’t find parking, so we drove back home and walked the whole five minutes [...]

Our sister Kim came out to visit us this week for just a few days. We wish she would have stayed longer, but could only afford to miss a few days of school in order to spend a little time visiting and evaluating Caltech as a potential college choice. I don’t even know [...]