I’m Richard, a retired software executive and startup technology consultant. But I have always wanted to be a writer. I was a creative writing major at Harvard, including a graduate creative writing course. I wrote a bunch of stories, all on a typewriter, and I lost those paper copies somewhere along the way. I’ve written various other stories over the years, but never published any of them.

Reading Taylor Jenkins Reid’s recent novels (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Carrie Soto is Back, Malibu Rising, and Daisy Jones and the Six) convinced me it was time to create this website, list some of my stories, and finish my first novel.

I’m also a diehard Swiftie.

This site includes a few of my stories, reviews of my favorite TV shows and movies, and my personal experiences in recovery.

I worked with software startups for thirty years, usually as the SVP of Engineering or the Chief Technology Officer. Most of those companies I “turned around” so they sold successfully within a year or two; some I shut down when I found the flaws or misrepresentations that the previous CEO or Software VP had hidden or embraced.