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.

“We shall pay any price … to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

— President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961



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“Sunrise. First Ray.” Oksana Levchishina, 1998

Acrylic, oil on canvas.  Ukraine.

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Newsday prints my letter to the editor about the word “overeducated.”

I got some more amazing news today, guys — Newsday printed my most recent letter to the editor, about the word “overeducated” being thrown around by our national politicians.  You can find it right here in yesterday’s paper.

My letter was edited down considerably for length, but I am still quite honored to see something I authored appear in this major regional newspaper.  Newsday is the America’s 10th largest paper, and the third largest in New York State.  It has a weekday circulation of 437,000 in the New York metropolitan area, and reaches nearly half of the households on Long Island.

I really am grateful to Newsday’s editorial staff for deciding that my letter merited the attention of its readers.



St. Columba College, Dublin, Ireland, J.R. Jobbins after P.C. Hardwick, 19th Century

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This joke got precisely zero love on Twitter. Go figure.

Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a reality where I am funny.



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Cover to “Suicide Squad” #6, Luke McDonnell & Bob Lewis, 1987

DC Comics.  I honestly can’t tell if there is a joke here about Carmen Sandiego.

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The Bristol Herald Courier prints my comments about the word “overeducated.”

The Bristol Herald Courier printed my latest letter to the editor this morning; you can find it at this link:

Your View: Be wary of politicians who shame the ‘overeducated’

Thanks once again to the editors of this excellent regional newspaper for allowing me to interact with my neighbors in Southwest Virginia.



Variant Cover to “Grendel: Devil’s Odyssey” #1, Fabio Moon, 2019

Dark Horse Comics.

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