Somewhere in or around Hollins. One of the things you see looking south is the Roanoke — Blacksburg Regional Airport.
Look for a surprise appearance by Mr. Turkey Vulture!
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“*HOW* did I get here?!”
Old people thoughts I totally had today:
“This McDonald’s is exceptionally clean. The staff should be commended.”
“Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map.”
“Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
— Sarah Dessen
(This quote was found on the Ravenous Butterflies Facebook page.)
Hello, Mr. Heron.
I finally got a shot of the heron that hangs out around the beaver dam (?) down at the Roanoke River.
A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse:
My voice, my words, with you, O love,
are storms on every day of every season,
and without
are an urchin’s fleeting whisper in the dark.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2023
Preorders available for the Gathering poetry anthology!
You can pre-order your copy of the Gathering poetry anthology, assembled by Poets Anonymous for release at its book launch on August 22nd in Fairfax, Virginia. The anthology will include my poem, “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.”
Details can be found here at the website for Local Gems Press, which is collaborating with Poets Anonymous to produce the book.
“Nothing” appears in Down in the Dirt Volume #210.
The August 2023 issue of Down in Dirt Magazine just dropped (Volume #210), including my short poem, “Nothing.” The theme of this issue is “At the Zoo.”
You can purchase a copy of Volume #210 right here at Amazon.
Or, you can read the entire issue online for free. My piece can be found right here.
Thanks once again to Editor Janet Kuypers for permitting me to showcase my work in such an outstanding literary magazine!
Goodbye, Alvey Hall.
A really nice alumna of mine supplied a few more pictures of the destruction of Alvey Hall, after I posted about it yesterday. (Thanks again, Shelby!)
As I mentioned then, the Mary Washington College dorm was actually torn down in 2021.
They leveled my old dorm at Mary Washington College.
No, it wasn’t due to the infamy of me having once lived there. I have not yet fully scandalized a building.
This article is from two years ago — but I just saw this today when an alum shared it.
WOW, the memories I have of that place.
Alvey Hall Demolition at University of Mary Washington
I did NOT see Dad coming.
I told the nice young woman who cut my hair that I went to school in Fredericksburg. She said she thought I might have gone to high school with her dad.
For some reason, that made me feel SO old.
Update — people on Facebook have now informed me that the phrase “nice young woman” is employed only by old people.
