My "Secret Idenity"

Rocketed to stay-at-home-fatherhood by a doomed economy, I am a strange visitor from a planet known as Corporate America where I once was a business executive.

As a child I was raised in rural, western Pennsylvania by loving parents who instilled in me a sense of Small(ville)-town values. Leaving home, I sought adventure in the big world as an Army officer and gained understanding with a degree in English Literature.

Along the way my many exploits have included:

- being the first student in the second grade to write an award-winning account of the Iranian Hostage Crisis

- dating an actress considered to be the Korean film industry’s equivalent to Winona Ryder (and no, it wasn’t Yunjin Kim from Lost)

- getting into a full-out brawl in front of (then Texas governor) George W. Bush – he seemed quite amused by the whole thing

- surviving a semester studying Female Novelists as the only male in a classroom full of Femi-Nazis. (It was like being hunted by the Amazons on Paradise Island. Showing up with a shirt that said, “Kill ‘em all, and let God sort ‘em out” probably didn’t help me any either.)

- working for a Fortune 500 Company whose CEO I bumped into at an exclusive club in Vegas as he was flirting with a couple, fine young sirens. (I think the round of Patron tequila I sent his table saved me.)

- running into George Clooney at a donut shop in the wee morning hours (Well, not really, but it makes for a great piece of fiction.)

But the adventures that top them all are my marriage to my “Lois Lane,” and being a father to my three sons and two step-daughters. In dealing with issues like balancing the checkbook, peanut allergies, ADD (2 kids, Lois & me), male depression, blended families, divorce fall-out, long-distance parenting, and parental alienation, I require powers and abilities far beyond those of mere mortals.

Fatherhood, where I have to change out the empty toilet paper tubes, wash clothes with my bare hands, and who, disguised as “Clark Kent,” mild-mannered freelance writer and author of a great metropolitan daddy-blog, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way!

- Ron








Be on the lookout for my book, Sugar Milk: What One Dad Drinks When He Can't Afford Vodka. This collection of humorous essays about my unexpected journey from hot-shot executive to stay-at-home dad flies into stores in late Fall of 2009.

To view my writing look over the Sample Page where you can also find a link to my Examiner column on fatherhood.

You can also review my background and Resumes.

For more information about Clark Kent’s Lunchbox check out the About Page.

To contact me, my email can be found at Clark Kent’s Mailbox (or clarksdouble AT gmail DOT com)

Also, check out my social networks found in the right hand column of the Main Page