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“Perhaps everything that frightens us is,
This is M.M.Philpot
Before she learned that some things are impossible, Maggie dreamed of writing. She wrote beginnings of stories, scraps of stories, and sometimes even whole stories. One was the magical tale of an egg named Eggbert (of course) who, in spite of his best efforts, could not hatch. Instead he walked around on two legs that had sprouted from the bottom of the egg. Poor Eggbert was made fun of often. These stories piled up in journals and scraps of paper until one day, the day when one has to decide what one must be when she grows up. Upon that day, the stories were set aside and the serious business of being what one must be was begun.
In the dark ages of early adulthood, Maggie learned that most people do not write stories about eggs. Most people do grownup things with their time, such as monitoring bank accounts, listening to public radio, or reading non-fiction books about dead presidents. These things weren’t very interesting. But one must do them. This is what it means to be a grown up.
It was only after marrying her fairly spectacular husband and diving into the world of art and artists that Maggie began to wonder about stories again. Maybe other people liked stories and words more than bank accounts. Maybe mysteries and magic were everywhere, just waiting for the proper eyes to see them and capture them in words. Maybe some people never did have to enjoy grown up things, but could share the love of mysteries and stories with adults and children alike in the Neverland that is the imagination.
Maggie grew up in Fort Worth, Texas where she somehow still lives with her spectacular husband (whom she calls Husband), her two precocious children, and a rather ridiculous dog, Tucker. She spent eleven years as an educator, teaching teenagers how to express ideas and exert power using the art of rhetoric, and she earned a Masters Degree in the oh-so-practical art known as Humanities. She is currently pursuing more impractical schooling with a doctoral program in writing. Why not?
Most of all, she is passionate about anything and anyone who attempts to make beauty, order, and meaning in this crazy world. The simple act of writing is one way to do just that.
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