• When you feel like the noise of the world has affected your soul

      Two years ago this week we closed on our home here in Norfolk.  I loved the house we had found with its quirky layout, huge front porch and large mudroom, but I didn’t want to live here.  We had been hoping for an assignment in Hawaii or San Diego, but that didn’t pan out so we found ourselves setting up life in what many had called ‘the armpit of the Navy’.     That’s not exactly the kind of description you want to hear about your new city.  But I had listened to their comments and while I learned my way around town I would grumble.  The traffic is so…