Aisha and I are back in Berkeley after the financial near armagedon of 2008. Ironically, the events leading up to our move back were very fortuitous.
Aisha decided that the fashion industry culture was not for her and has moved back to working for a technology company. Being a strong-minded confident woman who is comfortable in her own skin did not go well with the insecurities of the fashion business apparently.
This meant that there was nothing to tie us to New York. Aisha and I decided to move back to my spiritual home of Berkeley. (Yes, after years of whining on my part, I get my way). This was in September of 2008. By October, she landed a job based in San Francisco. My company was fine with me moving back to San Francisco as well.
This opened a whole new life path and set of options to contemplate. We decided to buy a house in the Bay Area. We met someone who turned out to be the best real estate agent ever. We must have looked at over 40 homes over the course of 3 months. We flew in to the Bay Area from New York on weekends and our agent spent every one of those weekends driving us to see every available home in our price range and neighborhoods possible.
We found a great HOME by chance (Aisha found it on craigslist of course) and moved in January 2009 and here we are.
A lot has happened between 2007 and now.
My father passed.
My sister completed graduate school.
We made many great and lasting friendships.
We saw our love between ourselves and our families grow.
Aisha and I were married in the most amazing wedding and reception I could have hoped to imagine.
We found a new home.
My father passed.
My sister completed graduate school.
We made many great and lasting friendships.
We saw our love between ourselves and our families grow.
Aisha and I were married in the most amazing wedding and reception I could have hoped to imagine.
We found a new home.
Then again, wherever Aisha, Mochi and I are together is home.
