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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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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 19, 20253 min read
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 19, 20253 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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