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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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

The Aimless Brunette Wandering Gypsy Nomad: Travel Guide

Hey, everyone! It’s me! The most basic wanna-be travel blogger that appears on your timeline every two days! That person that you tell...

maggiemac

Apr 12, 20184 min read

Magpie Reviews: ArtFair Philippines 2018

In my continuing brazen campaign to be sponsored by the Filipino Tourism Board (#itsmorefuninthephilippines) to get to attend free events...

maggiemac

Mar 18, 20183 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

Magpie Reviews: Netflix’s Queer Eye

Growing up with an interior designer mother, I watched a lot of TLC. We’re talking What Not To Wear, Trading Spaces, Extreme Makeover:...

maggiemac

Feb 21, 20184 min read

Lady Leaders To Give You Life

Every time I write a beautiful piece of scathing satire about our current political climate, something unbelievable always breaks,...

maggiemac

Feb 5, 20184 min read

Reverse Culture Shock: Thoughts of an Expat

So you wanna know what reverse culture shock is like when returning home for the holidays after living in the Philippines for half a...

maggiemac

Jan 30, 20184 min read

2018 Resolutions

2018 is starting off v strong and in the spirit of New Year, New Me, I thought I’d share some of my 2018 Resolutions. But since this is...

maggiemac

Jan 11, 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

The Hallmark Channel Original Christmas Movie Original Drinking Game

It’s the most wonderful time of year again when it’s acceptable to admit that you watch Hallmark holiday movies followed by several...

maggiemac

Dec 6, 20174 min read

The Magpie Reviews: The Bodyguard

In my family, we’ve had a long-running joke that my dad is secretly Kevin Costner. It all started when a couple years ago, Dad mentioned...

maggiemac

Nov 28, 20174 min read

The Magpie Reviews: Alias Grace

In the hollow emptiness of the aftermath of finishing Stranger Things II, I was weak. I was searching. I was vulnerable to boring Netflix...

maggiemac

Nov 8, 20175 min read

News Sources as Mean Girls Characters

We live in a brave new world in which credible news sources and freedom of press are so 2000 and late. We’re so divided that the actual...

maggiemac

Oct 19, 20175 min read

My Updated Application for The Bachelor

Wow, guys, a whole cycle of The Bachelor/The Bachelorette/ Sexy Sex Sex Island has already passed since my last Bachelor Application, and...

maggiemac

Oct 2, 20175 min read

Three Month Maggie

It’s now been over three months since first landing in Southeast Asia, meaning I’m already a quarter of the way into my experience here!...

maggiemac

Sep 26, 20173 min read

The Magpie Reviews: 11th Annual International Silent Film Festival

I thought I’d do this new thing where I write specifically about events in Manila for three reasons: It forces me to live as normally as...

maggiemac

Sep 4, 20173 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

One Month in Manila

The other day, I was hanging out with a dear friend in another area of the city. She left to meet with family and I was waiting on my...

maggiemac

Aug 1, 20173 min read

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