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A lifestyle blog that's kind of a mess from a broad just doing her best

The magpie is a mouthy bird who hoards sentimentality, lives unabashedly, and will eat almost everything. That is me. I’m the magpie. Also my name is Maggie. See what I did there?

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a poem written on the eve of your funeral

I feel like a child, wanting to stop tomorrow from coming, Not understanding why my parents won’t pick me up from this slumber party. I...

maggiemac

Jan 193 min read

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Inna, Always

On Dec. 16, 2024, my beloved friend Inna passed away, surrounded by loved ones, who journeyed with her through the nearly year-long rare...

maggiemac

Jan 193 min read

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A Domestic Violence Lawyer's Reaction to "It Ends With Us"

In 2016, romance author Colleen Hoover published "It Ends With Us," now a blockbuster movie starring Black Lively. I honestly didn't care...

maggiemac

Sep 21, 202411 min read

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Your Guide to Exceptional J.D. (Dis)Advantage Jobs

So you got your juris doctor after three hazy, chaotic group-fever-dream years in law school? Congratulations! You must be so thrilled!...

maggiemac

Nov 24, 20237 min read

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How to Hard Reset

Every time I get too overwhelmed with my life- my empty bank account, my flightiness, my choices, my self-victimization of said choices,...

maggiemac

Dec 3, 20225 min read

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Law School Girlies

I absolutely love law school. Hold on, hear me out, pick up your jaw from the floor. Surely you're thinking, " Wait, didn't you famously...

maggiemac

Sep 24, 20226 min read

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Kalamazoo as a Summer Fling

Because I am The Most Interesting Woman In The World (tm) ((a strong rebrand from Hoosier Trash (tm))), I've now lived enough places...

maggiemac

Jul 24, 20223 min read

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Maggiemazoo

Do you ever find yourself completely, completely utterly alone at the only hipster-ish (emphasis on the -ish) coffee shop you could find...

maggiemac

Jun 2, 20224 min read

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It really was 1L of a year

Before I started law school, I was super ignorant of the school culture. I knew about how competitive it was (hello, I've seen Legally...

maggiemac

Jul 26, 20215 min read

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1L Law Courses as 1L Students

Contracts: Contracts is that nice, studious girl that you chatted with on Orientation but who quickly spiraled into the tunnel-visioned,...

maggiemac

Mar 16, 20216 min read

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My Favorite Study Daydreams

There comes a point when I'm in the library that my eyes are incapable of focusing any longer. I mean, they definitely possess the...

maggiemac

Mar 3, 20218 min read

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Law School: Expectations v. Reality

Taking the LSAT Expectation: The LSAT is a magical test. It is essentially the closest we'll ever get to a real-life Sorting Hat. When...

maggiemac

Jan 2, 20218 min read

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Magpie Reviews: Strike!

There comes to a point for every voracious consumer of 90s pop culture when you've truly seen it all and a certain emptiness hits. You're...

maggiemac

Jul 17, 20204 min read

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An Echo of Pain and Injustice

I hadn't posted anything on Black Lives Matter on here on Magpie because I thought it would just be assumed I support it. I've attended...

maggiemac

Jul 7, 20208 min read

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How to measure 25

I recently turned 25, which I had been dreading in a vague existential way. I think I was mourning the end of my early 20s, which I...

maggiemac

Jul 3, 20205 min read

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Fixations

One of my favorite spaces on the Internet is the The Cut's search results on its Fixation section. Endless articles promise ruminations...

maggiemac

Jul 3, 20206 min read

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Friendship Hall of Fame

So like any millennial woman who grew up on a steady IV drip of The Saddle Club and H20 that were basically designed with the same Sex...

maggiemac

Jun 23, 20208 min read

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My Dream City Neighborhood

Last night, I went to go see The Gentlemen on a date with myself. ((The movie was pretty great but I do predict that it will be a lot of...

maggiemac

Feb 1, 20205 min read

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Songs to Cry To When You're In Your Feelings

I read somewhere once that there aren't "songs that make you cry" but rather songs that let you cry. I think this was from either a...

maggiemac

Jan 24, 20204 min read

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Media Gal Pals That Gave Me Life in 2019

I tried to write about fifty different sentences that truly encapsulated how trash 2019 was but for the life of me couldn't embody all...

maggiemac

Jan 2, 20205 min read

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