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Art imitates life Aldrich's Hollywood venture left him with a love of fiction writing, which he exercises by producing (up to now) one desk-drawer novel a year. His themes revolve around the stuff of his work world and his heartfelt cause to improve education. One plot pivots on what would happen if an outsourcing firm tried to privatize education? OK, so it's not Raymond Chandler, but Aldrich does find drama in the barriers and issues.
Aldrich and his wife Lisa homeschool their sevenyear-old son-kind of like having a personal education petri dish in which to grow the culture of an engaging school curriculum.
"Right now," says Aldrich, who himself exhibits the head-long energy and pell-mell lope of a kid, "I'm using Excel to teach some of these homeschooled kids who aren't math enthusiasts how to do really cool things with graphs and numbers. As with adults, it's exciting to figure out how to leverage the natural interests of kids for maximum learning!"
On the surface, Clark Aldrich's nonlinear career path seems more a matter of serendipity than strategy. But once the dots are connected, a solid foundation-indeed, even a metaphorbegins to emerge.
In what he describes as his "yin yang" background of employment, Aldrich interned at several advertising agencies during summer breaks from college. In 1989,...