Coffee Ice Cream & Books

I like coffee ice cream, especially with some kind of chocolate.

September 6, 2025, at home

I have read many books in my lifetime so far, especially during my studies for my two university degrees. Hey, during my undergraduate-degree matriculation in the early 1980s, I had to read FIFTEEN (15) Shakespeare plays in three months. Also, when I was working as a reporter/writer for a wire service on commodities trading in 1997, I studied a HUGE textbook in the evenings. At the start, I had no knowledge, except that I was personally familiar with the products I was covering - coffee, sugar, cocoa, cotton, and orange juice - but not the markets. Also, in the 1980s, I read a fair amount of German philosophy: Hegel for university; and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on my own.

I am (still) in the preliminary stages of compiling a book of 75 of the more than 300 self-penned poems that I have written since 1986 for self-publication as a soft-cover book. (Many of my poems have already been published in national anthologies.)

Also, I am (still) in the process of writing an autobiographical novel loosely based on my four years (1992 to 1996) as a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for an international weekly magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry based in the Financial District of New York City (Manhattan). I am including and elaborating on various aspects of my entire life so far that did NOT happen during those years. I hope to have it self-published.

(I was a journalist from September 1982 to April 2017.)

September 6, 2025, at home