Author Archives: jaurquhart

©2012 (700 words) Last weekend, the central Florida burg where my partner and I live held its annual residential Garden Tour.  It’s a big deal in these parts—a pay-for-view event that affords locals and out-of-towners the opportunity to access some … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (992 words) Recently the UK’s Mail Online ran an article entitled, “Do you have Celebrity Worship Syndrome?” along with a quiz “to measure the reader’s ‘CWS’ symptoms”.  One of the T/F quiz statements was, “I enjoy … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012  (1500 words) Last week I received an e-mail from a stranger—a response to a comment I’d posted at an online publication. “Beware what you commit to the Internet,” a much more cautious friend is always … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (890 words) I have been trying to fathom what it is about Edith Pearlman’s marvelous Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, January 2011) that makes this story collection such a treasure.  That is why it was almost … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012  (881 words) On August 11, 1998, I met my spouse, Raymond, at a San Francisco coffee-house.  Church Street it was, a Tuesday afternoon if I recall correctly.  A recent transplant from Boulder, Colorado, I’d been … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (700 words) Pity parties are never fun.  After all, there’s really nothing to celebrate, and who wants to be invited.  Nevertheless, I’ll admit I’ve been whooping it up lately, mostly in private but not always, … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (885 words) Though Father’s Day is well behind us, I have been stuck lately in Daddyland unable to shake the notion that even though my children have somehow managed to reach adulthood in one piece, … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (985 words) This week I have been thinking about Karma. Okay, it’s more than that.  I’ve been thinking about foot injuries, too.  And blow jobs. That is because I have—by reason of an operation to … Continue reading →

By Jack A. Urquhart ©2012 (1400 words) Readers familiar with the initial installment of Lorinda J. Taylor’s ambitious saga, The Termite Queen: Volume One: The Speaking of the Dead (386 pages, hard copy), know that Taylor is a vastly talented … Continue reading →