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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Update Since Departure
#update
maggiemac
Aug 9, 20171 min read
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
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
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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