Boomer Boy: A Life from the Baby Boom to the 21st Century

A coming-of-age memoir set against the shifting moral landscape of postwar America.

From streaking escapades in 1970s Buffalo to encounters with Vietnam veterans on the open ‎road, from psychiatric-release sidewalks to inner-city human services work, this book traces ‎one man’s restless search for meaning, justice, and belonging. Told with wit, humility, and ‎unflinching honesty, these stories capture moments of absurdity, rebellion, compassion, and ‎reckoning—where laughter collides with history and youthful bravado gives way to hard-‎earned understanding.‎

Part social portrait, part moral inquiry, this memoir explores how place, chance encounters, and ‎cultural upheaval shape who we become—and what we owe to one another. At once funny, ‎unsettling, and deeply humane, it is a record of wandering, awakening, and coming home ‎changed.‎

An American on the brink of fifty uproots his life and family to northern Italy, expecting ‎beauty, romance, and renewal—and finds instead a deeper education in belonging, parenthood, ‎language, and loss. Through the births of his children, the shock of cultural difference, and the ‎quiet strength of Italian family life, he confronts what it means to stay put in a world obsessed ‎with movement.

As smartphones, social media, and global restlessness reshape human ‎connection, he watches two cultures diverge and overlap through the eyes of a father, husband, ‎and reluctant immigrant. By turns humorous, critical, and tender, this memoir explores home, ‎community, and the cost of progress—asking what we gain, and what we quietly surrender, as ‎the world speeds up around us. Part memoir, part political meditation, and wholly human, The ‎Future Is Unwritten traces one man’s journey from America to Italy and across the fault lines of ‎history, family, and conscience. A former U.S. Marine turned teacher, husband, and father, the ‎author reflects on racism, fascism, migration, gender, technology, and the slow unravelling of ‎democratic norms—seen from the distance of expatriate life and the intimacy of raising children in a ‎changing world. With candor, moral urgency, and flashes of wry humor, he confronts America’s past ‎and present while honoring Italy’s hard-won freedoms. This is not a book of easy answers, but of ‎lived experience, hard questions, and stubborn hope. In uncertain times, it reminds us that history is ‎never finished—and neither