Tag Archives: Jack A. Urquhart

“March”: a poem by @jackaurquhart

Posted on April 30, 2014 by jaurquhart

(Some free verse … for my son, Dillon) March You were tardy aborning, a day late and mad — —as a March hare; it took a suction cap to coax you into the world. Pushed to fight or flight, a … Continue reading →

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A Birthday Wish For Dillon, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on March 7, 2014 by jaurquhart

©2014 by Jack Andrew Urquhart 682 words Dear Dillon, Dear Son, It’s March again—what would have been your thirty-fifth birthday arriving hard and heavy on the heels of Ash Wednesday this year. I say hard and heavy because it feels … Continue reading →

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When God Happens, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jaurquhart

© 2014 by Jack A. Urquhart     562 words I have been thinking a lot about God and religion lately or, perhaps more aptly, about the place that notions of Deity figure in my life.  Which is not typically a … Continue reading →

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Moving Home, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on January 30, 2014 by jaurquhart

©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart   939 words I own a house.  I have owned it for several years. It is the house I grew up in from early adolescence, although until recently, I had not lived in it for over … Continue reading →

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Mom’s Christmas Tree, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on December 25, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart               631 words This is my Mom’s Christmas tree.  Her last Christmas tree.  A balsam fir, I think it is. Ray and I bought it for her on December 5th.  A Thursday.  We brought it over … Continue reading →

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Sleigh Bells Ring, a Christmas Memory, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on December 22, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart        937 words It was 1960, I think.  I would’ve been almost twelve that year—too old to believe in Santa Claus.  My tendency to engage in pre-Christmas snooping had seen to that.  By then, it had … Continue reading →

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A Few Words for Mom, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on December 19, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack Andrew Urquhart       1124 words On the afternoon of December 7, 2013, I received the telephone call that most of us think (and hope) will never come our way: the call that informs us that a … Continue reading →

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A very strange man, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on October 25, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart       988 words Once long ago in another lifetime, I was Vice-President of a multi-million-dollar financial institution.  Until, on a spring afternoon, suddenly I wasn’t. It was mid May, I believe, when the … Continue reading →

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As real as ever, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on October 13, 2013 by jaurquhart

In Memoriam, Dillon Tyler Urquhart, 3.08.1979 – 8.02.2013 ©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart  370 words Dear Dillon, Dear Son, You are much on my mind today. It has been 72 days now.  You’d think that would be long enough, wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Indie Authors: Yakkers, Tweeters, Braggers? Is that all there is to us? by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on September 30, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart   2177 words “To me, it seems disrespectful … that a ‘wannabe’ assumes it’s all so easy s/he can put out a ‘published novel’ without bothering to read, study, or do the research … Self-publishing is … Continue reading →

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