Nurse Madeline of Eden Grove
With Miss Eden’s gift, Madeline was able to help Surgeon Michael Foley realize his dream — a new nursing home. Only, somehow, the nearer it got to completion, the more convinced Madeline became that her efforts were on behalf of the wrong man.
Nurse in the Clouds
Nurse Tracy Nichols should have been the happiest woman on earth. She and handsome Dr. Clifford Sampson had worked hard to build and operate the Centerville Community Health Clinic, which had become a resounding success. And they’d grown very fond of each other in the past four years.
Now Cliff wanted to move to a big city and start a lucrative private practice. Best of all, he wanted Tracy to be part of his new life. Any other girl would have jumped at the chance to marry the charming doctor and share his secure future. Yet Tracy found herself yearning for Andy Carlton, the playful, unpredictable helicopter pilot who could offer her nothing but risk and struggle.
Take away the top hat and you’ve got my 4th grade school picture.
Tiny Pineapple is the personal website of Grettir Asmundarson, single father of two tween girls, spy, writer, aficionado of diminutive bromeliads, collector (but not reader) of nurse fiction, film school drop-out, and actor (semi-retired).
The “Please Upgrade Your Browser” screen by which all others will be measured…but I really need to pull Safari aside and have a little chat with him.
“Young man, we treat all browsers with kindness and respect, no matter how scruffy or non-standards-compliant they are…”
A collection of Lou Romano’s development and production work on UP. The Final Color Script is fascinating, and I’d love to get my hands on poster-sized prints of Ellie’s Mural and the Tepui Map.
“To date, The Library Initiative has created over 60 new libraries in schools in underserved neighborhoods throughout New York City, introducing the world of reading to new generations of students. As P.S. 47 librarian Joanne Davis told the Times, ‘A lot of students here have never been in a school library or even a public library.’ Robin Hood executive director David Salzman observes that each school library impacts ‘5 percent of a school’s real estate but 100 percent of its students.’ All of this means that The Library Initiative is a remarkable testimony to the power of design, and one of our favourite projects…” [via Woodward Design]
The Christoph Niemann murals at P.S. 69 in the Bronx are my personal favorites.
