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MAGPIE
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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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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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 Talk to a Young Person About Internet Safety Without Feeling Like an Old Fogie
Ever since moving back to the States and interacting much more with young adults in my day-to-day life, I have had to keep myself...
maggiemac
May 8, 20195 min read
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What Now? : A Choose Your Own Adventure Post
Congratulations! You’ve successfully finished your internship with a prestigious international NGO, working in the fight to end cybersex...
maggiemac
May 6, 20197 min read
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How to Measure Your Depression!
Have you ever wished that there was a sliding scale to tell you when your “well, it’s been kind of rough season” officially turns into...
maggiemac
May 6, 20193 min read
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A Bottle of Tears in Cincinnati
I’ve moved back from the Philippines five months ago and since being home, I’ve been stuck in a weird loop of family crises and brief...
maggiemac
Feb 15, 20196 min read
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Messy Vignettes on Moving On
I thought about Getting Bangs™ as any mentally stable, very healthy person ignoring major life changes also contemplates doing, but then...
maggiemac
Jan 22, 20194 min read
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How I Found a Family 8,345 Miles Away From Home
It’s midnight on my 23rd birthday. I’m standing exactly 8,345 miles away from home in a Filipino town outside Manila and ugly-crying over...
maggiemac
Oct 18, 20186 min read
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Eyelash Extensions and Existential Crises
Every expat ((I’m talking at least half a year, buddy!)) has a reentry moment, after they leave the place they learned to call home and...
maggiemac
Oct 18, 20184 min read
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The Great Takeaway
As I prepared to leave the Philippines and my 15 months’ service with International Justice Mission fighting against cybersex trafficking...
maggiemac
Sep 20, 20185 min read
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Little (Garbage) Fires Everywhere
I love email and letter correspondences because they are whimsical, genuine, and impossible. You both try to share as much as you can but...
maggiemac
May 5, 20184 min read
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For Such A Time As This
Over a year ago, I left Romania shaky and weepy. My three-ish month stint serving at a survivor shelter for vulnerable women and children...
maggiemac
Apr 18, 20185 min read
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Calligraphy and Arrows
The Saturday before last, I was begrudgingly convicted that I should go to my church’s fundraiser for their big location move (from a bar...
maggiemac
Mar 1, 20183 min read
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Joy, Unspeakable Joy
You know that feeling when you try to wake up from a self-induced NyQuil coma and you’re kinda awake and moving, but also like, are you...
maggiemac
Dec 14, 20174 min read
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Social Justice and Starfish
A little boy and his grandfather walk along the beach one morning during low tide. The ocean had washed up hundreds of starfish overnight...
maggiemac
Aug 23, 20173 min read
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Update Since Departure
#update
maggiemac
Aug 9, 20171 min read
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Advice for Older Siblings of Adopted Children
When we decided as a family to adopt my little brother and sister, I was 20 years old. My biological siblings’ ages ranged from 22 to 14....
maggiemac
Aug 4, 20177 min read
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Women In My Life as Museums
(A Listicle: brought on by melancholic thoughts of leaving for a year and reflecting on the women in my family who inspire me and nurture...
maggiemac
Jun 17, 20172 min read
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How should I measure this year?
So I find myself sitting at a public park in Carmel because its public amenities are on par with that of a small Scandinavian country and...
maggiemac
May 23, 20173 min read
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