Richard Tipton:  

I met my wife on an airplane to Switzerland and we have been married for thirty years. Between us, we have four children and nine grandchildren. Update: Will be married 38 years in October '16 I retired in July '08 after forty years in the appliance industry. I spent most of my career as VP of Sales & Marketing for Thermador and then as President of Standards of Excellence, an appliance distributorship owned by Sears. We celebrated my retirement with a photo safari in Botswana, Africa. My wife and I both love to travel and with one son living in Florence, Italy for the past several years, we'll probably spend much of our time over there. Other interests include boating and golf. In 2010 I published my first novel. "Generations" is a young-adult story about a 15 year old boy who loses his parents in an airplane accident and goes to live with an estra...Expand for more