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OCTOBER 2025 BLOG

(originally scheduled for May  2025)

Appreciation: A Haiku

Love it when the words

I have written are read and

Enjoyed by others.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(5/4/25)

 

My heart is now at rest. I did the best I could with what I had to work with. Now, I travel on – perhaps only a short ways, but I move forward – without guilt and without remorse. I will continue to live my life.

 I have been caring for my husband for a couple of years. He suffered from many distressing symptoms, but even over all that time, no medical professional could put a name to his illnesses.

He declined rapidly after the Roswell Flood the night of October 19, 2024. The first diagnosis was PTSD.Then they said he was suffering from “Failure to Thrive”. Things pretty much went downhill from there.

On March 24, 2025 he passed away. Cause of Death officially proclaimed as End-Stage Cerebrovascular Disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Apparently, the almost imperceptible stroke he had November, 14, 2020 was far worse than anybody thought and no amount of treatment or care was going to affect the final outcome.

Basically, from that time one, he suffered synptoms that could have indicate “Lewy Body Dementia” or “FrontalTemporalLobe Dementia” (FTD).

No matter what actually caused his death, toward the end he went to bed and vitually stayed there, refusing to eat or engage in any activity at all. Not even a team of home nurse caretakers could help bring him out of his shell.

On a side note, this is the second time I have been widowed. I lost my first husband to lung cancer in 1981, I don’t think there will be a third time charm. I am content to live to live out the rest of my llife in Colorado, surrounded by my daughter and her family (and of course my faithful readers, if I have any left). I was originally going to post this in May of this year, but could not bring myself to push the button. I’m doing better now. Relocation is never easy, but it is taking absolutly forever to get everything straightened out. Especially required governemt documents for a valid Colorado ID. (I don’t drive anymore.) All my personal certificates (Birth, Death, Marriage, etc.) were lost in the flood. (The first anniversary of which is October 19^th. I will not be celebrating.)

Once more, I am restarting my writing careet. Among items I found in storage, was a treasure trove of poetry and essays from my dystopian younger days. They will be published soon along with my many other works-in-progress.

As always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages, if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky       

 

https://twitter.com/awlasky

https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky

Tomorrow is the 1^st of October. The yeat is three-quarters over. It has been and unkind year so far. I don’t see it getting any kinder any time soon.

 

 

 

 

“Happy Lunar New Year 2025”

 

January  2025 Blog

Second Chance: A Haiku

The Year of the Snake

Tells me I can start again

And redeem myself.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(1/29/25)

 

The snake and I are going to get organized, this time for sure. Especially since I did not die the night of the 100 Year Roswell Flood – Oct. 19, 2024.I just stopped living any kind of real life.

Our house and most of our belongings were destroyed in an unprecedented deluge of rain and a broken levee that inundated entire communities inRoswell, including ours.

My husband and I escaped with our four doggies and very few personal belongings. Even our car was washed down the street and into our neighbor’s fence.

Then, when we were trying to get things back together, my husband fell ill and spent most of the rest of the year between two hospitals and a nursing home. He is now at home in the apartment we were lucky to rent that would take the doggies. But he still has nursing care and therapy.

 I didn’t know if I would ever get back to anything near normal, but here I am. I am celebrating the Lunar Year of the Snake and I’m coiling up to strike out and resume the writing editing and publishing that I was able to salvage from the muddy waters.

My blogs will come as they are inspired and hopefully not be a continued apology for what I am not getting done.

I am embracing the Year of the Snake to:

Declutter – the flood pretty much took care of that.

Reset – thrift stores are wonderful, so is our Salvation Army.

Refresh – starting with this blog.

Until next time, I will continue to breathe life back into my words and not lose contact with the world out there.

To prove I am embracing the Year of the Snake, here is a phote taken (quite) a few years ago. That’s me, two snakes and a toad on my head. One of my very favorite pictures.

As always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages, if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky      

https://twitter.com/awlasky

https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky

It is now almost the end of January and February may be the hottest one in history. It’s going to be an interesting year for many reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Let It Rain”

 

September  2024 Blog

Raindrops, Keep Falling: A Haiku

The gentle drops of

Rain upon my head comfort

Me with their coolness.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(8/30/24)

 

I’m not wet; I’m refreshed. For the first time in months, the day dawned cool, gentle raindrops fell, and the temperature didn’t reach a hundred-plus degrees.What a relief!

I will soon be able to sit outside and write again. Something I have not been able to do the last couple of summers.

As I understand it, this summer will be the hottest on record, breaking the recor made just last year. I sense a frightening trend here, and I see no worldwide effort to do anything about it.

While people are at war with one another worldwide and country-wide, the Earth is heating up to a dangerous point – or has that point already been reached and no one wants to tell us that we are truly doomed?

That wouldn’t surprise me one bit. There’s so much that we aren’t told but find out much later. Much later in this case woud probably to too late.

I would love to see the next administration concentrate on coming up with a worldwide plan to save the Earth from overheating to the point all life on Earth becomes extinct. We have no place to go. Those Sci-Fi scenarios of rocket ships to populate other planets made habitable by terra-forming just have not come true yet. What is true is that we (the people) are heating up the planet beyond its capacity to compensate and recover.

All of us who are “crying in the wilderness” hope someone in some position of authority will hear and comprehend. Maybe my “Global Warnig: Climate In Crisis” will help a tiny bit. Maybe others will catch on, and there will be a ground swell of people clamoring for change. I can dream, can’t I?

“Global Warning: Climate in Crisis” available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KWQ6SHK/

A $1.00 donation for each book sold will be made to an environmental cause. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #SaveOurPlanet

In the meantime, I will continue to write what I feel and love and try dwelling in one of the cool places in my fiction.

As always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages, if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky      

https://twitter.com/awlasky

https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky

It is now September and it seems the 100+ days are behind us for the rest of the year. It also means the year is two-thirds gone Only four months left to “get ‘er done”. I’m working on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“On Hold”

 

July/August  2024 Blog

Vigil: A Haiku

Minutes seem like hours;

Hours seem unending, waiting

For a surgeon’s smile.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(7/16/24)

 

Started the July blog at least four times last month. Something always came up to make me put it down and start with another idea – or stop altogether.

So much has happened on the world scene and privately with my husband’s health issues.

So July is blown, and I’ve decided to take August off to put myself back together – again.

Thank you all for your support. See you in September.

As always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages, if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky      

https://twitter.com/awlasky

https://www.facebook.com/ann.wilmerlasky

It’s now past July and into August, and the weather is still too hot. Still looking for more days of 100+ temps. Summer has been brutally searing.