All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

“August rain: the best of summer gone …”

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath



“After the Rain, Gloucester,” by Paul Cornoyer

Anti-Heroin Chic publishes a photo of mine!

I am delighted today to see a photo of mine published in Issue 35 of Anti-Heroin Chic.  🙂

You can find it right here at this link.  (Or, you can simply link through my name in the issue’s table of contents.)

Anti-Heroin Chic has consistently been the home of some of the most raw and compelling creative work that I’ve found online.  I’m honored to see one of my photos featured there, and I’m grateful to Editor Roy Duffield for selecting it.



“Rainy Mood over Igls,” Anton Hlávacek

Poster for “House of the Dragon” Season 1, 2022

HBO Entertainment.

“The future is an infinite succession of presents …”

Throwback Thursday: Wista-SHEER Sawce.

Flashback to the early 1990’s.   I worked the cafeteria at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  (It was a work-study program.)  Southern kids would line up at the counter for me to serve them Worcestershire sauce, because they laughed at the way I pronounced it.

It’s “wista-SHEER sawce.”  Years of seeing it passed around my New York Irish dinner table could not have misinformed me.  It was the Southerners and their adorable “WAR-is-to-Shire” pronunciation that deserved laughter.

I’m glad we had this talk.



Cover to “The Flash” #121, Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella, 1961

DC Comics.

Okay, who gets to be Jesus?

So here’s an idea for a viral challenge — “Last Suppering.” You get together with 12 friends and snap a picture of your own tableau — thus defending free speech by exercising it.

Hey, it’s no stupider then planking or dabbing.

Don’t ask me to start it, though. You know I don’t have 12 friends.



“Girl with Shopping,” Wacław Szymanowski, 1899

Oil on panel.