Dee Ethier was always an energetic and interesting person. Our first interesting encounter was when she asked me what grade she is getting in graduate analysis. When I replied by asking what grade she thinks she deserves, Dee said that she did not care! I have always liked this kind of an attitude and Dee and I got along very well throughout the thesis process. Dee chose to write her thesis on Erdos-Falconer type problems in the p-adic setting. The subtle interaction of analysis and number theory in that setting is truly interesting and Dee was able to produce a very nice series of results that helped to provide a bridge between the finite field setting and the corresponding problems in Euclidean space where the Hausdorff dimension is the typical measure of size. Dee chose to work in industry after her postdoc at the University of Maine, but she maintains keen interest in mathematics to this day.