Welcome to my page. I’m Dionysios.

I'm delighted you’re here. I hail from Patras Greece, though I was raised in Brooklyn and Queens New York. My early life and teenage years were tumultuous in the extreme. But what doesn’t kill us (though at times that life nearly did) only makes us stronger. I began my foray in the food business at the age of fourteen. Beginning as a busboy, prep cook working for catering companies, part time in restaurants, then eventually operating a full service dining room. I stayed in the food business on and off, while completing my studies and worked as both a high school teacher and college adjunct lecturer.

Changing course, I founded a real estate development and property managing company. 2008 hit everyone hard and I was not an exception. After reorganizing my company, I turned to two of my many passions; acting and writing. I’ve appeared in films, TV, and on talk radio. In 2011 I published a memoir of my early life and my first novel in 2012. Since then I’ve published via Amazon and my Substack page, a collection of short stories, poetry, historical fiction and my crime trilogy soon to be a quartet.

For a decade I was a martial artist and I’m retired military. My entire life, I’ve been passionate about child protection. As I lived and overcame the trauma of being orphaned and trafficked. I’m always on the move, in fact I visited seventeen countries to date. My idea of relaxing is heavy bag training and jamming on a set of drums. I strongly maintain that it’s never over, until it’s over (figuratively and literally) idleness and complacency are not in my vocabulary. I'm always doing something, as Napoleon said, “De l'audace, de l'audace, toujours de l'audace.” It’s my pleasure to have you here, enjoy your visit. Think of me as your unseen host. I’ll be here with you and now, "Auf Wiedersehen".