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See you at the Grammys.

So I’m a little bit of a weird guy.  I had this absolutely vivid dream the night before last that I was a world-famous singer-songwriter.  And I stopped into my old college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, where all of my school’s deans and professors came out to greet me and invite me over for coffee.  I was a celebrity.

The reason I was in Fredericksburg was to record a new version of my latest big hit at a local church — this time it would be a gospel version of the song. (Think of U2’s Rattle and Hum album.)  This song, which had been my most popular ever, was called “My Girlfriend Got Eaten by a Gator.”

Here’s the thing — I SWEAR I can remember it perfectly.  It’s stuck in my head.  I was humming it all day yesterday.  If only I knew how to write music, I’d write it down and go all the way to the Grammys.


Update — sorry for not posting a trigger warning for any unfortunate souls whose girlfriends were, tragically, eaten by gators.  My bad.



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Photo credit: The Howard Gospel Choir performs at Kulturama in Stockholm.  US Embassy Sweden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Newsday prints my letter about the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s home

I just found out that my recent letter to the editor about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago was printed in the Sunday edition of New York’s NewsdayYou can find it right here.

Thanks once again to Newsday’s editorial staff for allowing me to share my opinion through this outstanding regional newspaper.



Down in the Dirt magazine includes “The Rough, Violet Stone” in its newest anthology.

I got some nice news a little while ago — Down in the Dirt magazine has included my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone” in its newest anthology, entitled The Final Frontier.  (The poem previously appeared in the magazine’s August 2022 issue on the first of the month.)

You can buy a copy of the new book on Amazon at the link below:

The Final Frontier

Or, you can read the entire anthology online right here.

As always, I am grateful to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for both this outstanding magazine and its subsequent poetry collections.



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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!  🙂



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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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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Down in the Dirt magazine publishes “The Rough, Violet Stone”

The August 2022 issue of Down in the Dirt has arrived, and in it you can find my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone.”  (Thanks, as always, to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for this outstanding literary magazine.)  The magazine’s theme this month is “My Name Is Equality.”

You can purchase a copy of the issue at Amazon right here, or you can read it online here at the Scars Publications website.



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Eric Robert Nolan reads “Haiku for a Coy-Eyed Girl”

Feign innocence, you
sly, lascivious dove, you
feral butterfly.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan



It’s all politics?

So my last letter to the editor (about mandatory school prayer) was distributed to a readership of about 470,000 readers.

Not the biggest number ever (and there’s no telling how many consumers actually read the letter), but it’s still a nice number.

Writing about politics or current events will garner you a far greater audience than poetry.