Richard Claeys:  

Life After 20 years on the East Coast, I returned to California in 1985 for a new position in Palo Alto. I retired at the end of 2008 as the Western VP for a national market research and polling firm based in New York. After four years of teaching and tutoring part-time at DeAnza College, a local community college, plus some communications consulting, board service and volunteering , I removed the training wheels and headed into full-time retirement. Luisa and I celebrated our golden wedding anniversary in 2014, and we have three grown children, plus eight grandchildren. My hobbies include music in all forms, sports events (no surprise), tennis (my wife is a USTA senior and member of several teams), travel (most recently Antarctica, the British Isles and Africa, followed by China, South America, the Mediterranean coast and the Baltics, (including Russia) and wines. Over the past 15 years, I've been part of the crew at Sacred Heart Heritage Vineyards in Saratoga, where we grow and bottle a Merlot that has won medals nationally and in California. We now feature a tasty Bordeaux-style red blend, whi...Expand for more