Nan Campbell

Bits and Pieces

News, events, thoughts, etc.

A Scavenger Hunt at the Met

In The Rules of Forever, Cara brings her students to visit Lauren at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a lesson in art and poetry analysis. After practicing with Hokusai's The Great Wave, the students are let loose in the galleries to locate other ...

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Cara and Lauren’s IHeartNYC Playlist

I have to have silence when I write. The tiniest thing will distract me. TV? Absolutely not. I would find even C-SPAN utterly fascinating if it meant I could procrastinate sweating over that next paragraph. And forget music. I can’t listen to music ...

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Guest Post from Cara Talarico*

*Cara Talarico is a fictional character from my forthcoming novel, The Rules of Forever. Her opinions are strictly her own. How Waiting Tables Made Me a Better Teacher I firmly believe there should be a mandatory requirement for all ...

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