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Don’t make me come find you

August 22, 2008 in Life is a Verb

I’m so pleased that on the official publication date of LIFE IS A VERB, I’ll be hosted by Moe Abdou and Ryan Bettencourt at Learn From My Life for a free, one-hour teleconversation–with you!

I hope you will drop absolutely everything you are doing and join me. Pre-soaking those stubborn wasabi stains? It can wait. Sharpening your grapefruit spoons? They’re lethal already. Dying inside during a happy business meeting about the never-ending search for return on investment? You know it will still be going strong when you get back. Writing the great American novel? Sorry, but William Gaddis beat you to it, so come join me!

Don’t make me come find you. Don’t leave me hanging on the phone line with just my mother to question me about those high school years and that time I skipped piano class taught by Mrs. Myrtle Muench. That might not be pretty.

I know what you’re thinking–"But I’m on Paper Road in Martinborough, New Zealand! It’ll be the middle of the night!" Well, I guess you might have a point. Here’s what time it will be for those of you in far away places:

September 2
9am – San Diego, CA
10am – Denver, CO
11am – Des Moines, IA
12pm – New York, NY
1pm – Sao Paulo, Brazil
5pm – London, England
6pm – Cape Town, South Africa
7pm – Tel Aviv, Israel
9:30pm – Colombo, Sri Lanka

September 3
Midnight – Shanghai, China
1am – Tokyo, Japan
2am – Sydney, Australia
4am – Martinborough, New Zealand

Hey, we can ask the folks in China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand what’s happening in the future! But if you decide for some unseemly reason NOT TO CELEBRATE WITH ME AT 4 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, I’ll weep quietly, but I’m sure a tape will be available afterwards. For the rest of you, I’d love to have you join me live on the 2nd to celebrate! Hopefully many of the artists represented in the book will be on the line as well!

I love what Moe and Ryan have created with Learn From My Life–and the way they organize these calls. You’ll have a chance to enter interview questions online–and a chance to vote on each other’s questions to rank which ones Moe and Ryan will ask. They will also take some live questions during the call.

Click on the icon in this post or in the upper right of the blog for more information and to register your questions. Tell all your friends. My mother thanks you.

September 2, 2008
9am Pacific / 12noon Eastern

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.

2 comments to " Don’t make me come find you "


Rick

August 22, 2008 AT 10:40PM

Barring corporate catastrophe, Patti, I will be on the call!

Point of order: it will be a recording available after the fact, not a “tape” (he says, as if much younger than Ms Digh).

edie

August 23, 2008 AT 1:44AM

I remember Mrs. Muench! She was much cooler than my first piano teacher. I remember her dog… used to lay on my feet on the pedals. And I used to have the lung power to bike from my house to hers, and back. Thanks for queueing that memory for me!