Mae McCreery
Bio
I’m a 29 year old female that is going through a quarter life crisis. When my dream of Journalism was killed, I thought I was over writing forever. Turns out, I still have a lot to say.
Stories (166/0)
Logic & Love
Throughout our lives, we experience love is different ways. Love for you family, for your friends, and for hobbies and jobs. First crush, first love, first real relationship. There's so many different kinds of love, I don't really think it fair to put one above the others. I don't love my family more than my best friend, my chosen sister, and my rock. I don't love her more than my current boyfriend. All three of those relationships are different and unique in their own way.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Humans
The Grief Method
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance: Stage of the Kubler Ross Model for Grief. I’ve experienced horrible in my life, awful and degrading things. I’ve dealt with people who spit in my face, and maybe I imagined what they would look like on a spit roast. Out of all the terrible things I wish upon people who’ve wronged me, the loss of a loved one is not something I’d wish on my worst enemy.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Psyche
Happy Second Mother's Day
Yeah, we don’t celebrate Father’s Day. Fuck it. I am a single, white female who didn’t grow up poor but we were definitely not rich either. I grew up in Southern California on 10 acres with extended family. I had a good upbringing and had nothing to complain about. However, I grew up without my biological father, and that was a fact that everyone enjoyed throwing in my face.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Families
The Break-Up
If you’ve ever been in a long term relationship, you know how hard it is. How hard it is to keep things balanced, how to work things out once the honeymoon period is over and the monotony of everyday life takes over. Sometimes, those relationships end. While ending a long term relationship is hard, it doesn’t mean that it’s heartbreaking.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Humans
F'Cough
I am an administrative assistant and the only one where I work that is under 40. I wear skinny jeans and tank tops and dresses, you know fucking CLOTHES TO WORK BECAUSE I AM A HUMAN. These are not inappropriate styles either. Its all very conservative. Except for skinny jeans, because I do not have a small ass.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Humans
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
We all make mistakes. Big, colossal, regretful, shameful mistakes. I once was so hungover that I spent 10 of the most nauseating minutes of my life in a bathroom trying to throw up only to do it on the counter of a doughnut shop 30 seconds after exiting said bathroom. I definitely regret that. I also regret wasting five years on a guy that continuously gaslighted me, let's hope you can learn from my mistakes.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Humans
The Lost Generation
It’s easy for one to imagine the colossal leap basic education has bounded in the last hundred years. Back in the 20’s women were just being allowed into colleges, albeit these were mostly colleges for women only. Harvard didn’t even allow women on the main campus; a separate college called Radcliffe worked with Harvard but did not give out diplomas until 1963. Although most women were allowed equal education through certain colleges, they were not allowed an equal diploma.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in Viva
The Lost Generation
After the Civil War, plantations and farming on that grand scale had forever ended. The Industrial Revolution began bringing in businesses left and right and society was now supporting factory jobs over field work. However it wasn’t until World War 1 that America finally gained some international headway in the industrial world. The Economy of the 1920s was much different than it is today; that may seem a little redundant and obvious but nonetheless true.. Britain was no longer the banker of the world, Britain and France had contracted monumental debts during the war and were both depleted. Since the United States didn’t enter the war till later on, the economic damage was not severe. The American economy was actually stimulated by the war. Exported goods had increased by three fold, by 1928 America made over about a third of the worlds’ manufactured goods and four fifths of new industries were based in the States.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in The Swamp
The Lost Generation
What can we take away from this decade of bootlegged alcohol and wild dancing? While many writers and artists romanticize this decade, it had daily struggles and problems that we still face today. They worried about work, about politics, the government and who ran it, mob bosses controlling the cops, and much more. However, they knew how to live in the moment. If the First World War taught the younger generation anything, it was to never take anything for granted. So many people died in the war, women in Germany had a one out of three chance of finding a husband. France and Britain took years to recover from the war, while America was the new Industrial Head of the world.
By Mae McCreery4 years ago in The Swamp