Rob Clark

The Snack Cart Keeps On Rolling We have an open-seating office plan designed to foster collaboration and camaraderie. It works very well but inevitably weRead more

Sneaking Into Cameron Indoor Stadium There are moments in life that don’t announce themselves as pivotal.  They just quietly show upRead more

"Do You Trust Me to Sell? Okay, Then Let Me Sell!" For a long time, I treated feedback like a medical diagnosis.  Not metaphorically.Read more

H. Keith H. Brodie and the $100 Tip Way back in my glory days as a student at Duke University, I worked shifts in the iconic Oak RoomRead more

Hurled Into The Holiday Inn Pool In my twenties and early thirties, I was a road warrior. Not the glamorous kind you see inRead more

It's Time to Layer Up! The Eastern half of the United States is under assault by Old Man Winter.  Snow maps are lighting up inRead more

Fool's Gold on Alligator Alley Alligator Alley is not a place designed for optimism. It’s a ribbon of asphalt stretched across the mRead more

20,000 Bullets Fans Booing in Unison Way back when the Washington Wizards professional basketball team were the Washington Bullets, myRead more

The Other Side of the Valley in 2026 “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”– Henry David Thoreau  We thRead more

The Knockout Punch Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. –Winston Churchill  The holidaysRead more

The Martin's Tavern Staircase Every December, our family makes a pilgrimage to Georgetown’s iconic Martin’s Tavern. It’s a tradiRead more

What Makes the Headline Possible? The hard work was in the rearview mirror.  We had raked up all the leaves and dragged them to theRead more

A Good Day to Die Hard Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. –Mary Tyler Moore LastRead more