Rob Clark

In the Spring of 1985, I was a sophomore at Georgetown Preparatory High School, when the school announced they would be fielding their first lacrosse team.  At the time, many of us had never even heard of the […]

In the Fall of 1989, I embarked on a glorious adventure to spend my Junior Year first semester “studying” in London.  My friend, Mike Kubik, and I arrived as a couple of Ugly Americans, ready to soak in the […]

Fifteen years ago, I was on the business treadmill, traveling constantly and racking up a hundred plus nights a year on the road. At the time, I was living in Washington, DC but working for a company headquartered […]

Have you heard the old joke about country music?

Beat.

What happens when you play a country music song backward?

Hmm?

You get your trailer back.  You get your wife back.  You get your dog back. You g […]

Almost exactly ten years ago, I had the opportunity to design and build (well, have someone else design and build) a screened porch and deck on the back of our house.  It had been a lifelong dream since I was a […]

Team sports hold so many important lessons.  At face value, the collective objectives are crystal clear.  Score points.  Play defense.  Win.  The results are not open to interpretation.  But there are diffe […]

Though you may not have done anything, will that be a consolation when she’s gone?  –Billy Joel
Several years ago, my friend worked for a small technology firm in the internet advertising space.  It was a g […]

"Love Them. Feed Them. And Want Them Around." My mom grew up as an only child in the bucolic beer town of St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania.  At aRead more

Snake Clark: Breaking Glass for the Warfighter If you accept the morality of going to war, the task then becomes to win at the leastRead more

 Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who we think are better than us, and end up feeling more inadequate. –Jack Canfield
Like most trends in my life, I was late to the dot-com bubble.  I had t […]