“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.

 

 

 

 

“Hello, World; I’m Back”

 

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.