Welcome to Illustrated Life!
I live my creative life in the margins of my days, and I am always pushing at those margins. Even in five-minute windows, we can create, write, draw, look, and see. I hope to always remind people that finding pockets and windows of time for our creative lives is important.
For me, creative margins = self care, mindfulness, calm, balance, and the search for meaning in life.
At Illustrated Life, I talk about creativity, habit, mindfulness, loneliness, memory, gratitude, the search for meaning, aging, journaling, and more. Within all of that, I encourage people to document their lives, to embrace the quotidian, and to record the details.
Prompts and Strategies for Embracing an Illustrated Life
Every week I share prompts for Illustrate Your Week, a freeform approach to keeping an illustrated journal of your life.
Why subscribe to Illustrated Life?
I email once a week on Sunday. That newsletter contains the weekly post and links to any other posts from the week, including the Illustrate Your Week prompts.
Free Subscribers: Most posts and newsletters are currently free to read, but they are not free to produce.
Illustrate Your Week Prompts: Prompts are accessible to free subscribers, but a the calendar/events portion of each weekly post is paywalled for 2025.
Paid Subscribers: Paid subscribers have full access to Illustrate Your Week, special posts, and series roundups.
Paid subscriptions are available to those who can and want to support my writing, the podcast, Illustrate Your Week, and other things I make available to the community.
Tip Jar donations are appreciated. If you prefer to use the Tip Jar instead of an annual subscription, please let me know, and I can help update your account.
About Me
I’m Amy, and I’ve been talking about creativity, drawing, life, memory, journaling, and personal documentation for years, especially through the Creativity Matters Podcast, which I launched (first as the Creative Mom Podcast) in 2006. More than 17 years later, Illustrated Life has become my new online home. (The podcast website fully shut down last year.) (I share my weekly art at Instagram as oamyoamy.)
I like to think of Illustrated Life as my podcast on a page.
Thank you for your support of my work and words now and through the years.
