Character-driven narratives exploring identity, consequence, and transformation.
Be Strong, Be Tough, Be Smart
A memoir of fatherhood, responsibility, and the lessons that endure
Before they become principles, the words are simple:
Be strong. Be tough. Be smart.
Spoken as guidance to a son navigating the early challenges of autism, they carry the weight of intention — a father’s hope that resilience can be cultivated, that discipline can steady uncertainty, and that wisdom can be built patiently over time.
But life does not respond to instruction alone.
As obstacles emerge — some developmental, some deeply personal — those three directives are tested in ways neither father nor son anticipated. What does strength mean when progress is slow? What is toughness when patience must replace control? When does being smart require listening more than leading?
Be Strong. Be Tough. Be Smart. traces the evolving bond between a father and his son through moments of doubt, recalibration, and quiet resolve. It is a story about influence — not as force, but as presence — and about the understanding that the lessons we teach often return to shape us.
Over time, what once seemed uncertain begins to take form. The child once defined by limitations grows into a man defined by possibility — ultimately forging his own path with distinction and independence.
Grounded in lived experience and emotional clarity, this memoir explores responsibility, resilience, and the long arc of becoming — for both the one who guides and the one being guided.
Real Men Wear Beige
A memoir of reinvention, consequence, and the courage to evolve
There comes a point when certainty begins to fracture.
The bold colors of youth — ambition, confidence, absolutes — begin to fade under pressure. In their place emerges something quieter, less certain, but far more honest.
After a season marked by mounting pressure and flawed decisions, Don Alfredano finds himself confronting consequences he never imagined — including prosecution and incarceration. What follows is not a story of collapse, but of reckoning.
Real Men Wear Beige explores the recalibration that happens when image dissolves and identity must be rebuilt without illusion. Stripped of distraction and forced into reflection, strength takes on a different meaning. Pride softens. Responsibility deepens. The definitions of success and masculinity are rewritten from the inside out.
This is a story about consequence — and about what remains when certainty is gone. In a culture that rewards extremes, Real Men Wear Beige offers something rarer: the courage to evolve.
Forthcoming…
My Marie
A love story before and beyond memory
Before illness, there was laughter. Certainty. A shared rhythm built over time. Marie was vibrant, present, unmistakably herself — and their life together unfolded with the quiet confidence of two people who believed they understood what the future would hold.
Then memory began to shift.
As Alzheimer’s slowly reshapes the woman he loves, Don Alfredano finds himself living inside two timelines at once — the vivid history of who she was, and the fragile present of who she is becoming. Moments of recognition give way to uncertainty. Roles reverse. Strength is redefined.
My Marie is not only a memoir of caregiving, but of devotion under pressure — a portrait of love tested not by absence, but by gradual transformation. It asks what remains when memory falters, and whether love can endure even when it is no longer fully remembered.
Intimate, restrained, and deeply human, this is a story about holding on — not to the past, but to the bond that survives it.
Farfalla
A psychological identity thriller set in modern Italy
The wrong identity.
The wrong family.
The wrong time.
When an innocent man is mistaken for someone else, correcting the error should be simple. But under mounting pressure and circumstances he cannot escape, he makes a choice that binds him to a life never meant for him.
What begins as a temporary deception tightens into a dangerous allegiance. In a world where loyalty is currency and bloodlines carry consequence, stepping into another man’s identity becomes more than survival — it becomes a test of who he is willing to become.
Set against the shadowed backdrop of modern Italy, Farfalla explores the cost of assumption, the weight of complicity, and the thin line between innocence and transformation.