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My longest-running friend, Beth Johnson, kept bugging to me to read the Gateway Recorder (Midlife in Gretna Green) fantasy books, and I kept resisting, but then she gave me a copy of Book 1 and I seldom turn away a freebie, so I read it.

I’m now halfway through Book 4. They’re addictive.

I can’t tell you anything about it, because just a blurb won’t do justice to the complexity of the interior lives, interpersonal (and interspecies) relationships, and politics being uncovered and balanced by a middle-aged (not teenaged!) woman who comes into her own unexpectedly and gives tradition a good, hard, much-needed shaking.

I don’t want to like them, but, dammit, I do!

ANYWAY, I decided to try to do a “pond” mani this week. It’s called a pond mani because the first people who did it did it in water themes. This one is bamboo.

I painted all my nails s pale green, then stamped bamboo with darker green. Then I painted over my accent nails with what’s called a “milky” white, smooth and translucent. Stamped another bamboo over that, then another coat of milky white, then a final bamboo. It’s supposed to make it look like it has depth.

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: bamboo

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