Every time Vincent D'Aleo has tried to talk to his kids, he's wound up sounding like his own father. Which is to say he has sounded like a cross between Almighty God and Yosemite Sam. The son of a Sicilian father and an Irish Catholic mother, the only parenting style he knew was "Father Speaks"; everyone does what father says. But his children weren't born during that era. It took him decades to sort out who he was and, consequently, who he is. And in an effort to save his kids time and countless hours of psychotherapy, he began to write stories, stories that would help demonstrate to...