My own diving board

August 8, 2008 in Life is a Verb

Okay, truly? I’m going to stop all this new book nonsense soon and sit my butt down in the chair and start writing again. Really. Real soon. Like tomorrow or the next month.

But today, I started out the door to go to buy the largest bag of baby carrots I could buy for the marching band dinner that is going to take place on a hot football field just before a cookout with 110 marchers and double that number of parents and all of that just before getting into a car with two adults, two teens, a five-year-old, a dog who has a skin irritation, five bikes, and beach chairs for a 5.5 hour drive. And as I went out the door, I saw a box from Amazon.

"This must be my copy of the new translation of War and Peace," I thought gleefully to myself. "Just in time for beach reading!" (Just keep in mind that this photograph demonstrates what Mr. Brilliant reads at the beach. True, unretouched photo).

But no.

Evidently I had ordered myself a copy of Life as a Verb to see when they would ship. And, my friends, here it is! So if you have pre-ordered from Amazon, I’m thinking this day will come soon for you, too! Let me know!

This feels incredibly exciting–and incredibly scary–all at the same time. I think I’m beginning to know what the diving board feels like to Tess.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

5 comments to " My own diving board "


Rick

August 8, 2008 AT 2:27PM

And, here I thought I was the only one silly enough to order a copy of a book which I already have in large quantity in my house.

In all seriousness, Patti, the two times I felt most authentic as a publisher was when I checked my wife’s book out of the Denver Public Library (they have two copies, in fact), and when the package arrived from Amazon containing her book.

Roy Mullins

August 8, 2008 AT 4:04PM

CONGRATULATIONS! This makes it even more real. A book, deliverd via ups or usps or whatever, from Amazon, you know, where real books by real authors come from! Those of us who have kept you to ourselves, our little secret on the interent where we find daily doses of wisdom, poetry, monumental aha moments, and just plain down to earth perspective on reality must now share you with the world. I guess that makes the world a better place today. Congratulations again.

janet

August 8, 2008 AT 7:01PM

My copy is on it’s way …your book is sharing a box with David Sedaris’ new book.

How’s that for real?

janet

Julie

August 9, 2008 AT 6:42AM

Congratulations!!! I didn’t put in my order with Amazon yet because the last time I did that with a book, I saw it in the bookstores before I got my copy and felt cheated. I’m going there RIGHT now to get my copy!

jylene

August 10, 2008 AT 8:29AM

super-kala-fraje-listik-expe-ali-docious!!!
(i am running out of adjectives to describe the excitement of all this)