Westminster Confessions

in our Ugaritic class:
There are 10 kinds of people–
Those who understand binary
and those who don’t

Our daughter, Sarah, and her husband, John, keep us feeling a part of the family with an online family webpage featuring (almost) daily pictures and snippets of life in the Free household. Here’s the current story…
(from Sarah) Maggie and I were talking one morning as she was eating breakfast. I had recently heard from Ethan’s [...]

This site will let you make your own “paper” cut-out snowflake. Be part of the blizzard!
HT: Ros

Woke up this morning to a winter wonderland. It’s still coming down pretty hard. Since I took the photos we have even more accumulation and big fluffy flakes are falling fast. We’re hoping that we don’t lose power. When it stops snowing Éva and I will go outside (of course, I’ll have to borrow snowpants [...]

It will soon be time to start watching the Nome Cams!! Jeff King is in at White Mountain. Swingley is on his tail. The race to watch is between DeeDee Jonrowe and Paul Gebhardt for third place. After White Mountain there’s just the Safety checkpoint and then Nome!!
UPDATE 3/15/06

Jeff King wins!
Followed by Swingley (Yeah, Montana), [...]

photo by Jon Little
Yup, it’s that time of year again. For those of you who missed all the fanfare of the start, and the first few days of the race, you can still be part of all the excitement of the The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. And what a race it is this year. [...]

There is no such thing as being too old to make snow angels.
(For more “serious” photos of our snowstorm, check out Mark’s blog.)

I find it ironic that we sometimes chafe at giving up our privacy and individual preferences to develop community with our brothers and sisters in Christ but seem to be able to accept the inadvertant community that occurs between complete strangers who are thrown together in an apartment building.
When we were first married Mark [...]

This weekend when we heard about Brad Arms being killed in Iraq we were in the midst of studying for Hebrew and writing papers. We tried to get as much information as we could and to stay in touch with family and friends who shared this sad news. Mark’s done a good job of keeping [...]

It seems like way too much life has been packed into the last few weeks. So much has happened that I keep thinking I can’t possibly summarize it … and, hence, the reason that nothing at all has been written here. So, I will make a stab at at least starting to list some of [...]

Well, while we wait (and wait) for Hannah’s baby to come, here is a list of some of the things we are doing to occupy our time in Maine:

watching Moose (OK, we only saw one in the yard)

Painting Éva’s toes “pretty” (as she calls them) with nailpolish (it took Hannah almost a whole day to [...]

I have spent more than 8 hours (so far) this week on the phone with our new phone carrier (I’ll leave their name out of this for now…. but it does have a “V” in it). Let’s just say that some customer service and technical support people are more creative problem-solvers than others. We are [...]