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.

Walnut Avenue Bridge in Roanoke, VA, November 2021

I am not an excellent photographer by any means, but I’d like to think I got lucky with this set of pictures.  I set out for a nice, long walk on a temperate Autumn Friday — and decided to cross Walnut Avenue Bridge for the first time.  I was lucky, because the setting sun seemed to set Mill Mountain’s trees ablaze.  (And I didn’t even realize I’d be treated to a great view of the Roanoke River beside it.)  What a nice and unexpected turn of events at the end of a November day.

I’m sorry, as always, for the shaky-cam! (The bridge was shaking too.)




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Cover to “Daredevil” #319, Scott McDaniel, 1993

Second printing variant.  Marvel Comics.

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Proud dog!

A good friend of mine, writer and editor Tara Bann, allowed me to make this meme of her peppy little doggo.

Look at that face.  What a grin!



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Photo credit: Tara Bann.

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“Haiku for a Freckled Girl”

Her freckles entice —
spilled cinnamon flakes upon
whipped cream in coffee.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2021



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Photo credit: Ilya Yakover ilyayakover, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Variant cover to Doom 2099 #1, Gerardo Zaffino, 2019

Marvel Comics.

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Veterans Day 2021

Thank you, Veterans.

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Photo credit: A man and a young boy visit a gravesite in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 11, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released).

People say this is a bad joke, but I Stan behind it.

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Cover of “See” Magazine, September 1955

Great West Newspapers, LP.  Cover photo is of Terry Moore.

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