Category Good Morning, Mr. Magpie
Daily call
From the Files of Burning Dad: Bukowski, My Found Candy Bar
The face was that of a sad man who had endured pain but had happily survived it. It had made...
Bukowski at 100
“All you need is what you have. Work it.”
Editorial on Censorship, Cancel Culture & Art
Perfect is a myth. Happily Ever After is a fairy tale. Our world is an imperfect sphere inhabited by imperfect…
Summer of Action
George Orwell didn’t like the concept of Utopia. He believed Utopia is no fun. In his essay “Can Socialists Be…
Mother Nature to Humans: “Sit Down and Shut Up!”
We have been given a timeout; forced into our rooms to face each other and ourselves; to think about what...
the Thieving Magpie Reaches the Terrible Two’s!
At the age of two, this tiny venture is just getting on its feet. It's still cute and cuddly. But...
Timeless Harvest
Read. Create. Submit. Repeat.
Even In the Middle of Things, Even In the Heat of Things, We Flap our Wings and Sing
An antidote to all the heat is escape. And that is where Art plays an important role. The Thieving Magpie...
Flowers & Lions & Lambs
We do not ignore the anxieties. We do not dismiss the darkness. We do not give a cold...
the Thieving Magpie turns 1!
Still chirping. Still flapping. Still finding and gathering odd and precious gems of literary mischief from around the...