Jerry Ahern - Author and Columnist

I guess it’s safe to say that spring has finally sprung over most of the United States. We’ve progressed from a horrible, rotten, stinkin, cold winter (did I say enough) to above normal temperatures so rapidly that most of us can’t even remember yet where we stashed our hot weather clothing. Cool weather gardens couldn’t be planted when they should because even they don’t like hard freezes and hail. Now these crops think they’ve been transported to the middle of the Sahara Desert. Not a lot we can do with some things, I guess.

Winter set some us back in terms of our lifestyle. Excuses were abundant for not going out for walks or for playing outside with the kids. Healthy foods were easily replaced by comfort foods. “Salads too cold but pasta warmmmm. Chocolate my friend! Fuzzy, warm blanket just right to wear in front of television while snacking.”

OK, some of us have been bad; some of us have just been perfect, yeah. Now is the chance for us imperfect ones to get in gear and make some positive changes. I promise I will as soon as I think about it some more. You go first.

Seriously, one thing I’m going to start doing is spending more time on this website. I’m sure you notice the date of my last blog. I’m going to try to put something up at least once a week and if I start lagging, please let me know. Even if you don’t want to read what I write you’ll at least have the satisfaction of keeping me to task. I’ve got lots of things to say and writing it down is easier than talking to myself about it. Maybe then, people will stop staring at me.

Another thing I’m going to establish is putting stuff on the WHAT’S NEW page instead of pretending that we’ve seen it all. If you followed Jerry’s writings in outdoor/gun magazines, you know that he usually had a column about neat stuff that had just come onto the market or deserved a second look or books; both fiction and non fiction that he thought deserved your attention. He started this way back in the mid 1970s with a column called Terrain and Situation which appeared in Soldier of Fortune magazine and he had similar columns in both Dillon’s Blue Press and Gun World magazines until his death. Help me out here. I’ll be looking for stuff that I want to share with all of you but, if you know of something cool, let me know about it and we can all share information. Get in touch with me through the website.

I’m thinking about some other changes too but too much thinking all at once can give anyone a headache. Right now I think I’ll go out for a walk and maybe water the garden if there’s anything that hasn’t burned to a crisp.

Sharon

Update on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 12:04PM by

Jerry

I just want to add something some of you may have not heard about. Harlequin/Gold Eagle/etc. was bought recently by News Corp. which is part of Harper Collins. With the entire book publishing world standing on shaky ground, I do hope that all the authors who have contributed so much to our reading enjoyment come out of this new deal unscathed. We did a few books for them ourselves such as the TRACK series and two TAKERS novels. Let's try and keep an eye on what happens.

Sharon