Amelia Garvey

Hi, friend. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want my life to look and feel. The thing about getting laid off is that all of a sudden, all I have ahead of me is a question mark—a big open expanse of what if. And for a type-A hyper-planner like me, that’s, uh, terrifying. Had this happened even just a couple years ago, I would be throwing myself back into the job search, immediately seeking the stability and certainty (lol!) of a full-time job (LOL!). But my brain is working...

Hi friend. Over the past few months, I’ve been circling around a set of ideas about creativity, curiosity, routines, and lifestyle in this newsletter. At first these all felt pretty unrelated, but I’ve started to realize that they’re all pointing to the same underlying question: how do you build a life you love? How do you actually design your ideal life? Lately, I’ve been trying to answer that question by finding the “right” next step in my career. I feel like I keep trying on personas that...

Hi, friend. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about storytelling. That’s probably not enormously surprising—storytelling is the thing I do professionally (now taking clients, tell your friends!) and, more relevantly for this newsletter, it’s the thing I’ve been doing for fun since literally as long as I can remember. (That’s barely an exaggeration, by the way. The earliest story I remember writing was one I dictated to a parent at the age of four as they dutifully typed it out on our...

Hello, friend. If you've known me for any length of time, you know that I am a Winter Girl™ at heart. I love a deep lungful of icy air; a cozy blanket; a wood fire. I love when snow crunches underfoot, I love the strangely vibrant minimalism of the frozen woods, I love wearing a rotating crop of sweaters. But despite even my dedication to the colder months, March really does love to try my patience. I go into March every year knowing it'll happen, and still every year around this time I start...