Ice Cream Dreams

Ice Cream Dreams: Memories of a Sweet Life is Dr. Gospe's third memoire. His first, Images From Childhood explores his memories between ages three and fourteen as he grew up in San Francisco in the 1940's and early 1950's. His second, Illuminations in an Elevator is a collection of vignettes based on his medical practice as a gastroenterologist in Santa Rosa, California. Ice Cream Dreams lets the reader hopscotch with Dr Gospe from his ages nine to eighty-two. You will jump from San Francisco to Santa Rosa with stops in Alaska, Venice, and the Caribbean Sea. In the process, you'll join him as he makes hospital rounds with his father in 1947 and recollects his family's cabin in the foothills in 2020. Ice cream in various forms touches each of these stories either directly or indirectly. The sweets vary from cones to banana splits and from Italian Gelato to Eskimo Pies.