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McKenzie Watson-Fore
@mwatsonfore.bsky.social
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(She/her) I write, dance, and watercolor my feelings. Find it all at MWatsonFore.com
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Had this thought in the shower this morning that I should stop saying I’m a freelancer and instead I should refer to myself an editorial mercenary.
Love getting to write about one of my favorite new spots in #Boulder! If you haven’t yet, go get some pastries from #Maisonette
Maisonette, a French bakery from Michelin-trained chef Florian Tétart, has opened in downtown #Boulder. Serving handmade pastries, artisan breads & French-inspired lunches, the café is already selling out daily and drawing crowds to Walnut Street. boulderreportinglab.org/2025/09/04/m...
Boulder’s Maisonette bakery, led by Michelin-trained chef, finds its place downtown
Serving handmade pastries, artisan breads and French-inspired lunches, Maisonette brings new life to a renovated space on Walnut Street.
boulderreportinglab.org
Ugh I will never stop loving this essay. It gets me every time.
So honored to receive a heartfelt response to my essay in the July issue of @christiancentury.bsky.social ! #churchcamp #religioustrauma #readerresponse
We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the Letters & Comments section from our Sept. issue, with thoughtful responses to @jasongedwards.bsky.social, @texasbishop9.bsky.social, @mwatsonfore.bsky.social, Stanley Hauerwas, Valerie Weaver-Zercher, and more:

www.christiancentury.org/letters-comm...
Thrilled to see Jenny Phillips’ essay for @www.sneakerwavemag.org featured in this week’s #memoirmonday roundup from @memoirland.bsky.social !!!
www.sneakerwavemag.org/p/jealous-of... This week in sneaker wave magazine, a startlingly beautiful piece about loss and grief by Jennifer Phillips.
jealous of my friend's dad's funeral
by Jennifer Phillips
www.sneakerwavemag.org
Learn about William Bartlett’s brief life as a teenage Amway distributor in this week’s #personalessay from @www.sneakerwavemag.org !!!
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In this week's issue of sneaker wave magazine, William Bartlett tells his true story of selling Amway while trying to break into the professional ballet scene in New York City. This story gives us plenty of hope to make art and to believe in our dreams!
conrad and the circles
by William Bartlett
www.sneakerwavemag.org
Tomorrow, fix yourself a lunch of frito pie and come hang out with @carameredithwrites.bsky.social and me while we talk all things church camp! Substack live at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET

#churchcamp
Gorgeous and devastating story by Allison Macy-Steines in this week’s issue from @www.sneakerwavemag.org!
We're back after a couple weeks of vacation! This NEW issue of sneaker wave magazine features a horrifying and amazingly beautiful true story by Allison C. Macy-Steines. We guarantee that you won't forget this one. www.sneakerwavemag.org/p/all-that-g...
all that grows, grows back
by Allison C. Macy-Steines
www.sneakerwavemag.org
I absolutely love running into friends unexpectedly at the library. What a delight. #library #publicspace #ilovemylibrary
“Grasping for sins to get a piece of the agony”!! Yes. Such a perverse incentive system.
I wrote about the way the doctrine of total depravity alienated me from my inner knowing — read it now in @christiancentury.bsky.social!!

#church #totaldepravity #churchcamp #crynight #youthgroup
“Life became a sin scavenger hunt. At the end of every day, I curled up with my journal in my blue-and-green loft bed for a moral inventory. ‘How have I been disappointing you lately, God?’ I wrote.”

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Dear Jesus, Am I broken enough yet?
At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm this...
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This entry in the Farmer’s Almanac implies that Johnson’s impeachment and McKinley’s assassination were both results of their beardlessness 😂
What a narrow view of the world to think that only your definition of “technical abilities” can justify an educational program to exist.
I'm endlessly surprised by how many graduates with "social science" degrees, even from graduate and professional programs, don't have any technical abilities whatsoever. They can't do statistics, they can't use GIS, they can't program, etc. These programs should be shut down.
A story for anyone who’s ever had a total haircut disaster and lived to tell the tale—and, more personally, a story for all of us who have struggled to match the verve inside of us to the appearance outside, to find the right way to express our inner ‘fuckitall.’ #sneakerwavemag#pridemonth#truestory
sneaker wave magazine kicks off Pride Month with an absolutely cracking story by Robin Pickering. Her writing is inventive and surprising at every turn, with a true story that is heartfelt from beginning to end. What a voice! www.sneakerwavemag.org/p/the-fuckit...
the fuckitall
by Robin Pickering
www.sneakerwavemag.org
I’ve been reading Rachel Syme’s #SymesLetterWriter (it’s so gorgeous and fun) and I’m on the section about sending recipes in the mail! What synchronicity
Actually, why limit yourself? I’m curious about both of them.
Wait I am so curious about this rhubarb stew
@therumpus.net your newsletter says you’re taking subs for #collaborativecritism (a column I’m so excited for!), but I can find the submission info. Inquiring minds (and collaborators) would like to know 🤓

#submissions #literarycriticism #writingincollaboration #sendhelp