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.

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The Piker Press publishes “An Ode to a Would-Be Swimmin’ Skink”

The Piker Press today published my humorous nature poem, “An Ode to a Would-Be Swimmin’ Skink!”  For those of you who are uninitiated, a skink is a little lightning-quick iridescent lizard common in the Southern United States.)  And they even ran the photo I submitted with the poem!  (I snapped a shot of the little fella off Shenandoah Avenue here in Roanoke, VA.)

You can find the poem and the photo right here.  Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful community of readers, writers and artists.

Happy Monday!  🙂



“Elegre,” Anne Brigman, 1923

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A whole bunch of my classmates are turning 50 this year.

I’m not sure how you arrived at that decision, but I wish you all luck with it.  Even if you are getting too old for me.



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Cover to “House of Secrets” #87, Neal Adams, 1970

DC Comics.

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It’s Fryday.

My breakfast this morning was in the shape of a FedEx delivery driver.  I have no idea why this occurred.

Look at him in his little brimmed cap!



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Variant Cover to “Venom” #1, Marco Mastrazzo, 2021

Marvel Comics.

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Throwback Thursday: these “nice threads!”

YES, we looked like this — and we looked ****ing AWESOME.  We need to bring this whole style BACK.

My only concern about this meme is that it originates from the 1980’s Memory Lane Facebook page, and I was dressing like this at Mary Washington College in the early 1990’s.  Was I just behind the times?  Maybe that was why people looked at me funny.

But I was big man on campus with these.  I had people literally congratulating me on my pants — and that has not happened once since the 1990’s.



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Cover to “Doctor Fate” #3, Keith Giffen & Dave Hunt, 1987

DC Comics.  The actual title of the comic series is indeed “Doctor Fate.”  I’m not sure why it is abbreviated on the cover.

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