“Happy Chinese New Year!”

 

FEBRUARY 2026 BLOG

Sequestered: A Haiku

Time to retire to

My garret, sharpen my quill,

Let the world go by.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(1/29/26)

 

My fictional worlds beckon me; the real world repels me. My life has gotten better for sure, but the world out there has not. Although I do not have an actual “garret”, I will tune the world out as much as I can and concentrate much more on my writing.

I find I am reasonabably healthy for an 82 year old woman. My situation is stable, and I am settling well into my new envirnonment. I finally got my new Colorado ID, and I’m happy as a lark. (With everything except the picture, of course) It seems they do not charge 82 year old old ladies for this service. Thank you, Colorado. That is so nice of you.

This winter, it seems, has  has been uncommonly mild. With most of the country uncommonly bitter cold and stormy, I will gladly take the mildness. Athough my daughter says we may still get some wicked weather in March.

I won’t even comment on the state the country and the world are in right now. I just keep praying for kinder and gentler days. In the meantime, the best I can do is shut off the news, play some classical music and write to my heart’s content.

Wow! That actually sounds great! I’ll have to remember that! (Smiling now) It’s amazing how good thoughts can raise one’s spirits. I have even gotten back in touch with my characters.

Sam Rock (The Seasons of Sam Rock) has informed me that after I finish his sequel with Marie Delacroix (this month for sure), I owe him a final story of how he got kicked off the police force in the first place and became a detective.

Sentia (The Chronicles of Aqueria: Blood Moon Treachery) has her arms folded, and she’s tapping her foot. She is demanding her sequel and the prequel of life before Dhavin and his people came into it.

I even have poems (written and unwritten) screaming at me, demanding their release into the ether. I cannot deny them much longer. I know the words will not change the world, but they will at least let the world know what I think about it – at times kind and encouraging, but for the most part, cruel and self-absorbed. I would love to at least soften some of that.

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, and there will be announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky 

      

https://twitter.com/awlasky

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

Today is the 1^st of February. On the 17^th, it becomes the Chinese New Year. This will be “Year of the Fire Horse”:. I intend to make the best of it.

I used to raise, train and show Appaloosa horses in an earlier lifetime. I was thappy then.

Hope to rekindle that happiness and the fiery spirit of the horse to help me along.;

 

 

 

 

 

“Happy New Year!”

 

JANUARY 2026 BLOG

New Dawn Rising: A Haiku

As this year closes

May we bury the darkness

And move toward the light.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(12/27/25)

 

I insiste!! 22025 was such a bleak year. I am glad it’s gone. I certainly will have a better year in 2026. The last on was my worst ever. Not much can surpass it.

This year, I will concentrate on my passion. I started the day writing. An old adage says whatever you do on New Year’s Day you will do all year long. I’m all for that!

I’m hoping the world comes to peace with itself. But, if it doesn’t, I still plan on being happy in my own little world. I feel I deserve it. I will not stop being aware of what’s happening out there. I will simply be aware and live my own life as best I can.

Thus, in putting this year behind, I can move on: new new home, new surroundings. I’m actually a stranger in a strange land, having moved from the high desert of Roswell to the Colorado mountains. It was quite an adventure. Although it seems I can breathe just fine at high altitude now.

I plan on completing many projects this year ­– some old and some new – those crying to yet live and those anxious to be born. (Guess I still have that poetic edge.)

I will need to work on at least two projects at a time. At least that should keep everything fresh. I will need to reconnect with my characters and see what they have been up to while I’ve been “away”. And I’ll need to meet some new characters as well and get acquainted with them.

Should be fun, slipping in and out of their worlds. I’ll spend less time in mine, but that’s just fine with me.

I’ll probably be revamping all my social media accounts. I’ve noticed I haven’t changed anything, including pictures, for a long time.I may not change the photos though, since I am much more the strange “old” lady and I wouldn’t want to scare anyone.

I will upgrade my sites and rework my advertising program. My characters are demanding a better light to shine under. I owe them at least that.

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, and there will be announcements.

amazon.com/author/annwilmerlasky       

 

https://twitter.com/awlasky

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

Today is the 1^st of January. The year is just beginning. It has much potential, and I intend to make good use of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Another Trip Around the Sun”

 

DECEMBER 2025 BLOG

Celebration: A Haiku

Happy Birthday to

Me. I survived one more year;

Hope for another.

by Ann Wilmer-Lasky

(11/28/25)

 

82 years behind me. Hope a few more ahead. What a year this has been: Widowed for the second time in my life, transplanted and rebuilding my life in a whole new environment, reintroducing myself to my daughter and two grandchildren, and introducing myself to six great grandchildren. And then there’s reestablishing all the medical services I need.

That’s pretty much taken up the whole year. And I’m not done yet.

Next comes all the legal wrangling to set up the rest and the end of my life. And then a few finanicial odds and ends to deal with. And I still need to get a Colorado ID. I’ve almost replaced all the legal documents they are demanding that were lost in the Roswell flood.

But it’s coming together and so is reintroducing myself to my characters and manuscripts, parts of which I have to reinvent, because the flood took out many of my notes and outlines. At least my computer survived. It has most everything on it. Guess I better get a cloud back-up. You never know what could happen next. I’m sure this year has been a relatively rough ride for almost everyone. Would love for a December 31^st end to the bleakness and a shining new year be born ion Janyary 1^st. I can dream, can’t I?

In addition the reinventing my life, I’ll be revitalizing my writing precesses and cranking out some long awatied sequels and prequels, along with more Haiku chapbooks and some poetry I disovered that I wrote some thirty to forty years ago, during a totally dystopian period in my life.

I’ll be making and meeting deadlines. I have no reason not to make them. I now have the time to devote to what I am most passionate about: putting pen to paper and bringing my thoughts to life.

Just hoping for a few more trips around the sun so I can get it all out of my head and out there on the ether for all eternity.

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

Today is the 1^st of December. The year is almost over. It has been an unkind year for many of us. I’m praying for a better next year.