essays

A little on where I've been and where I'm going

Apr 18 •

Victoria McGinley

My resolutions, myself

Resolutions as a form of radical self-honesty

Jan 11 •

Victoria McGinley

The gifts we leave behind

Thirty years ago, I gave a Christmas gift. Last week, it returned to me.

Dec 12, 2023 •

Victoria McGinley

A war, a Stanley cup, and a gender reveal walk into a bar

These things have nothing in common except for making me wonder: What's keeping me on Instagram?

Nov 28, 2023 •

Victoria McGinley

We're all selfish now

A meditation on what the on-demand economy has done to us.

Nov 14, 2023 •

Victoria McGinley

I was an OG blogger. Now what?

For the women who led the charge into this wild west of digital content creation, what do we do when the headwinds change?

Oct 26, 2023 •

How much of our personal narrative originates from other people’s memories?

Apr 6, 2023 •

Is the notion of being in one’s prime another version of “having it all?” Or is it simply about the physical body and sex, and less about…

Apr 12, 2019 •

When you were growing up, did you ever have a "scary" age? That self-assigned year, marked by some distant birthday in the future, at which time you…

Jan 29, 2019 •

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