The Underwire
Maggie LangrickPersonal essays about being human and the writing life. Occasional poems + writing prompts, self-care and spiritual practices. Intimate, supportive, often uncomfortable.
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This is what we’re doing
Sometimes when I’m looking at a sky full of sun-gilded clouds, or at a supermarket parking lot, or a cutting board littered with garlic skins, I think to myself: Wow, fuck… this is what I’m doing, right now. I often need to take several run...
Healing the money wound
Let me be blunt: It makes no sense that I am not rich. I’m smart. I have skills. I have worked hard all my life. And—this is key—I have access to my intuition and magical powers of manifestation. (Powers that I believe are all of our birthr...
My summer art project is ready...
The other day I posted the dorkiest video ever on Instagram. In it, I am giddy, laughing and dancing, spinning around with my phone like it’s my high school sweetheart at prom. Also, I am sorely in need of a shower.
What’s behind this unfi...
Living the raw material
Journaling on jetlag, Brooklyn, August 2026
Hello from Brooklyn, where the humidity is 81 percent. My god, this has been the summer of sweat. If this carries on much longer, I am going to turn into an eel.
I just flew in yesterday from Lo...
Forced freedoms of a French heatwave
I learned a new French word this week: canicule. It comes from the Latin canicula, which means little dog and is also the Latin name of Sirius, the “Dog Star”. In fact, this is where we get the phrase “dog days of summer”; to the ancient Ro...
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Writer of personal essays, publisher of nonfiction books that help, heal, and inspire at Wonderwell. Irrepressible optimist with a wee fatalistic streak.
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