Hiii my wonderful readers. The days when I strictly sent you book recommendations have been long behind us. I hope the new name, Cherry Bomb, delights you as much as it does me. After a year of trying to be clever, and inventing silly names, I’ve landed on what simply gives me the most energy. I considered the title “Hello World” for months. But every time I’d say it, I’d sing the song Cherry Bomb by The Runaways on accident:
Hello world I'm your wild girl I'm your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb
Then I thought that cherry bomb is a pretty good analogy for nearly dying in a motorcycle accident as a young woman, which taught me endless valuable lessons. I imagined myself an exploded cherry to the guitar strums, like a cartoon. So, I’m happy there’s a bit of dark humor there.
Also, a cherry bomb is a firework, and I like the idea of sparking your heart with something…But mostly, it’s just fun, which is a huge point of this newsletter.
We’re on a weekly journey of discovering how to enjoy life and culture, just as much as how to analyze it or improve it. This is why I started with books in the first place! It’s entertaining and they inspire you to learn something or contemplate. Golly.
An enriched life is often times a balancing act between wild and safe. Somewhere in the middle of there is happiness. And maybe…we’re just…trying to live through that growth and happiness before we explode.
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Writing to you has been the adventure of a lifetime, and I can’t wait to send you even more offerings on life, love, creativity, relationships and of course BOOKS!
The book club is very much alive and the same, just with a new name. The Cherry Bomb Book Club, I think, is a fitting name for a club which reads primarily women and marginalized authors with a rebellious edge.
And you know, we’ll be reading like mad. :)
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Such a perfect name!!! I want merch! Also, thank you for sharing your story and I'm so grateful that you found joy through pain and are here to share your writing! I read a review of Intermezzo recently (though I cannot find it now for the life of me) and one of the love interests has broken up with one of the two brothers, the eldest, after a "near death experience" and I thought of you and cannot wait to get your perspective on this character when we get to read about her in September!! Cherry Bombs Away!
Love it so much!! Feels very you 💞