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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 weekly Illustrate Your Week prompts.
Free Subscribers: Most posts and newsletters are currently free to read, but they are not free to produce.
Paid Subscribers: Paid subscribers have access to special posts and roundups. As I move into the second year, I will be creating more content for paid subscribers and limiting access to certain posts (and possibly to parts of the Illustrate Your Week prompts series).
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.
I don’t like to shut people out of posts, so I have tried to view this as a bit of an honor system. If you value the content, I hope you will consider a paid subscription. But I am well aware that not everyone can manage that.
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, the substack has become my new home. (I share my weekly art at Instagram as oamyoamy.)
I like to think of the substack as my podcast on a page.
Thank you for your support of my work and words now and through the years.
