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Rod Kackley

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I quit my job to write. That’s how much love writing. It’s also an indication of how utterly frustrated I was with my life as a middle manager in a national corporation. Mid-life crisis? No, I don’t think so. It’s more that I saw the finish line approaching more rapidly than I expected thirty years before.

What I am is what I write.

The characters in the St. Isidore Collection, the people who live in this town I have created in my mind, all contain some thread of me. Let’s be honest. I write what I know. And I know the frustration of listening to the millennials at work talk about their plans for the next thirty years, and suddenly realizing I don’t have thirty years left.

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“Never fight an ugly man. He's got nothing left to lose.”
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“If doing the minimum wasn't good enough, it wouldn't be called the minimum”
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“In a way, it's like a significant lead that landed in their laps like a magnificent firecracker has just turned into a dud that went out like a popcorn fart.”
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