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DEAN'S QUARTERLY NEWLETTER, Vol. 10, No. 3, 03/01/2007
HIGHLIGHTS OF WINTER 2007:
The birth of my great nephew Roman, the son of my niece Rachel and her boyfriend
Justin, occurred early in December. I
headed to Minnesota the following week to
check out the little
bundle. Parents and child seem to be
adapting to the new regimen, and I look forward to the next opportunity to see
a little bigger bundle. It was unusually
mild weather, and of course, I enjoyed the time in Minnesota to catch up with family
and friends.
Trip to Colorado and Arizona: During 10 days in mid-January, I headed west
to visit my friend Tim and his family in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, my cousin Darin in Boulder, Colorado, and my mother at her
winter retreat in Apache Junction, Arizona. It was -20 degrees F the morning of the day
we attempted to teach Tim’s 3 ½ year old daughter Katherine how to ski,
though it had warmed up by that point.
Another afternoon we lounged in the local hot springs
after a fresh snowfall, and in the evening Tim and I spent several hours
catching up with some old songs that we’ve played and sang together
countless times over the years, plus some new ones.
My visit with
cousin Darin included another opportunity to see him
in his element at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research, where he operates the 3-D visualization lab. His colleagues and I had interesting
discussions about global warming and the arguments still put forward by a
handful of remaining skeptics. In the
coming months, Darin will be packing up and moving to Belgium, where his wife Anne has
already moved. (See last quarter’s
newsletter).
Unfortunately, the time spent in Arizona with my
mother was hampered by her not feeling well. Deep congestion and a lack of energy, which
her doctor later speculated as possible pneumonia, kept her mostly
confined. One night, it was downright
scary when I woke to the sound of a crash in the bathroom and found her on the
floor after she had fainted and bruised her head from the fall. She was on the mend over the several days I
visited and was able to enjoy the remainder of her stay through the month of
February. My second cousins, Leroy (and
his wife Teresa), Glenn and Wayne were visiting while I was there, and we had a
wonderful hike in the desert with their cousin Terry. That hike also gave us a brief scare and
another bruised head and body, when Leroy took a serious spill down a
cactus-covered hill. He was scratched,
gashed, bloody and initially a bit disoriented, but was surprisingly resilient
and thankfully was able to walk the couple miles back to the car and then drive
us home.
Trips to New York City: Two weekend visits to New York City, one joined by DC friends,
Janet and Carol, and the other by my Northern California cyber pal, Susan, were
enjoyable getaways. I particularly enjoyed
Greenwich Village coffee houses, the Metropolitan Art Museum, the Lower East
Side Tenement Museum and Ellis Island National Historic Monument, the site through
which millions of immigrants entered the U.S.
Movies: The Good Shepard ***, Pursuit of Happiness
**1/2, Venus **
COMING UP NEXT QUARTER (Spring): Trip to Ireland
Check in and let me know what’s up with you.
You can contact me by clicking on this E-mail address: mailto:%20mail@deanoman.com.
My address in Maryland: Telephone numbers:
Dean
Oman Home:
301-931-1144
10405
46th Ave., Apt. A204
Work: 301-504-2317
Beltsville, MD 20705
Review previous newsletters:
Autumn
06 – Dean’s News Vol 10,
No. 2, 12/01/06 – Western Europe
Summer
06 – Dean’s News Vol 10, No.
1, 09/01/06 – Minnesota and San Diego
Spring
06 – Dean’s News Vol 9, No.
4, 06/01/06 – Hanging around Beltsville, MD
Winter
06 – Dean’s News Vol 9, No.
3, 03/01/06 – Minnesota and Arizona
Autumn
05 – Dean’s News Vol 9, No.
2, 12/01/05 – Minnesota, Toronto, Boston
Summer
05 – Dean’s News Vol 9, No.
1, 09/01/05 – Washington, Oregon and Northern California
Spring
05 – Dean’s News Vol 8, No. 4, 06/01/05 – Joshua and
Dean’s Great European Adventure
Winter
05 – Dean’s News Vol 8, No. 3, 03/01/05 – Minnesota
and Bahamas
Autumn
04 – Dean’s News Vol 8, No. 2, 12/01/04 – Boston,
Orlando, plus new digs in Beltsville, Maryland
Summer
04 – Dean’s News Vol 8, No. 1, 09/01/04 – Toronto,
Minnesota, San Diego, Chicago
Spring
04 – Dean’s News Vol 7, No. 4, 06/01/04 – Italy,
Switzerland, Eastern Europe, New York City
Winter
04 – Dean’s News Vol 7, No.
3, 03/01/04 – Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Arizona
Autumn
03 -- Dean's News Vol 7, No. 2, 12/01/03 -- Minnesota
Summer
03 -- Dean's News Vol 7, No. 1, 09/01/03 --
California and Toronto
Spring
03 -- Dean's News Vol 6, No. 4, 06/01/03 – Minnesota,
Boston
Winter
03 -- Dean's News Vol 6, No. 3, 03/01/03 – Arizona,
California and Colorado
Fall
02 -- Dean's News Vol 6, No. 2, 12/01/02 – Balkans
and Turkey, Minnesota, Toronto
Summer
02 -- Dean's News Vol 6, No. 1, 09/01/02 --
Minnesota, California and Canada's Maritimes
Spring
02 -- Dean's News Vol 5, No. 4, 06/01/02 -- Nearly
arrested
Winter
02 -- Dean's News Vol 5, No. 3, 03/01/02 -- Arizona
and California
Fall
01 -- Dean's News Vol 5, No. 2, 12/01/01 -- Boston,
Minnesota, New York City
Summer
01 -- Dean's News Vol 5, No. 1, 09/01/01 -- Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia and Minnesota
Spring
01 -- Dean's News Vol 4, No. 4, 06/01/01 -- Baltic
Nations, Poland and Czech Republic
Winter
01 -- Dean's News Vol 4, No. 3, 03/01/01 -- Boston
and Arizona
Fall
00 -- Dean's News Vol 4, No. 2, 12/01/00 -- Colorado,
Minnesota and Gettysburg
Summer
00 -- Dean's News Vol 4, No. 1, 09/01/00 -- Minnesota
and Washington
Spring
00 -- Dean's News Vol 3, No. 4, 06/01/00 -- Eurailing in Europe, and Minnesota
Winter
00 -- Dean's News Vol 3, No. 3, 03/01/00 -- Jamaica,
Arizona and the Millennium
Fall
99 -- Dean's News Vol 3, No. 2, 12/01/99 -- The
Middle East and Minnesota
Summer
99 -- Dean's News Vol 3, No. 1, 09/01/99 -- Minnesota
Spring
99 -- Dean's News Vol 2, No. 4, 06/01/99 -- Pacific
Northwest
Winter
99 -- Dean's News Vol. 2, No. 3, 03/01/99 -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Fall
98 -- Dean's News Vol. 2, No. 2, 12/01/98 -- Germany, Poland and Czech Republic
Summer
98 -- Dean's News Vol. 2, No. 1, 09/01/98 -- A summer romance
Spring
98 -- Dean's News Vol. 1, No. 4, 06/01/98 -- New York City and Minnesota trips
Winter
98 -- Dean's News Vol. 1, No. 3, 03/01/98 -- Arizona and Colorado trip
Fall
97 -- Dean's News Vol. 1, No. 2, 12/01/97 -- Venezuela and Trinidad
Summer
97 -- Dean's News Vol. 1, No. 1, 09/01/97 -- Toronto and Niagara Falls
Best wishes to all,
Deano
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