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...
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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maggiemac
- Jul 7, 2020
- 8 min
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
- May 8, 2019
- 5 min
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 6, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Feb 16, 2019
- 6 min
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
- Jan 23, 2019
- 4 min
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
- Oct 19, 2018
- 6 min
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 19, 2018
- 4 min
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
- Sep 20, 2018
- 5 min
The Great Takeaway
As I prepared to leave the Philippines and my 15 months’ service with International Justice Mission fighting against cybersex trafficking...
maggiemac
- May 5, 2018
- 4 min
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
- Apr 18, 2018
- 5 min
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
- Mar 1, 2018
- 3 min
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
- Dec 14, 2017
- 4 min
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
- Aug 23, 2017
- 3 min
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 4, 2017
- 7 min
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
- Jun 17, 2017
- 2 min
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
- May 24, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Feb 9, 2017
- 4 min
Very Bien- My Franglais Missed Connection
Two things happened on the same day recently that opened up a subject that I have desperately tried to avoid for a while now: my...