Hi, y’all!

I’m Patti Digh, author of Life is a Verb and seven other books about creativity, mindful living, social justice–and the intersections of all those things. You could describe me as a Southern writer and speaker who helps others express their creativity, tries to create a more humane world, and fights racial and social injustice.

While my desk is now orange, I’m still that bespectacled kid in love with her first desk way back in the 1970s. My first published piece was an op-ed for my local newspaper when I was 12, exposing Nestlé for pushing baby formula in developing countries where it was unsafe because mothers didn’t have access to sanitary water for mixing it.

For ten years or more, every Friday morning, I’ve sent out “From My Orange Desk,” words on ideas, insights, and imagination, featuring a mix of my writing, ideas that inspire me, and sometimes things that infuriate me. 

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