Rob Clark

Turning Copper Into Pure Gold In the early 1990s, The Oak Room Restaurant at Duke University was an oasis of good food mixedRead more

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future. –Seneca
I had the great fortune to play in a charity golf tournament benefiting the Child Rescue Coalition down in Boca Raton, F […]

Light a lamp for someone and it will brighten your own path. –Ancient Proverb
My daughter briefly came home from the University of Maryland last week and it was great, as always, to catch up and re-connect.  It […]

It was another glorious weekend on the East Coast, and the perfect opportunity to get outside and play some golf (before settling into watching football and other such important weekend activities!).  So I headed […]

No matter how bad things are at any one moment, no moment lasts.  Time moves on, and so must we. — Kris Kristofferson
On December 26th, just about every year, The Clark Family packs up the family wagon and […]

The Clark Family snuck away last week for a short, impromptu vacation to Wrightsville Beach, NC.  As the revised mask mandates loomed up North, and our resiliency reservoirs were running low, the beach would be […]

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. –Jimmy Stewart
Coaching youth sports has been one of the most satisfying endeavors of my life.  And over the years, I have taken away more life […]

Change your perception of what a miracle is, and you’ll see them all around you. –Jon Bon Jovi
Back in the dark depths of this winter, a buddy and I hatched a plan for a glorious golf trip down to the […]

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” –Sir Francis Bacon
I had made this trip a thousand times before without incident.  Punch the button for my ticket.  Sit patiently as th […]

Is that a storm moving toward the Washington, DC area? Nope, just the radar picking up the blanket of cicadas descending on the suburbs like the 8th Plague.   If you live in a 15-state eastern region of the U […]

You can’t argue with stupidity. –John Cougar Melloncamp
In the Spring of 1989, the college parties on campus and off-campus were in full blossom.  On one particular night, our fraternity road-tripped over to […]

Sports can teach us so many valuable life lessons and play a central role in developing character and work ethic.  And few things give me greater pleasure than watching my own children participate in athletics.  W […]

By now, we have all heard about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the cascading repercussions of shutdowns and gas shortages up and down the East Coast.  In an effort driven purely by greed, now-defunct […]