The last official day of winter is here at last, which is cause enough for celebration. It’s also a good pause to look back over some of the more notable posts that went up over this past season, and as this marked the 20th anniversary of this website, there were quite a few.
It began with the same vantage point as this post: the Winter Solstice. Attempts to embrace the arrival of winter were mostly successful.
The first ring of fire was blue. The second was gold. Both appeared on the Year in Review for 2022, Part one and Part two.
A new calendar year begins just as winter gets underway.
Bitter Peach by Tom Ford provided an unlikely scent for the snowy season.
Bringing the twins to Boston required not just one, but two posts.
Madonna is going on tour again, and of course I have to go.
Feeling my years now more than ever.
This website first opened in January of 2003, and for the ensuing twenty years a lot has happened.
The Amsterdam Mall has turned to crap, so getting kicked out of it is more a badge of pride than shame.
A lavender haze by Taylor and Tom.
Gazing into the aging that a mirror reveals.
At tea time everybody agrees, so let’s put the kettle on and get into it.
Exploring mindfulness in a dishrag.
Coaxing a mystery orchid back into bloom.
Madonna’s greatest album ever turned 25.
Two decades of ALANILAGAN.com feels like a terribly long time. But it’s still where I get nakedly raw, providing a diary and map of my life, even when I don’t always want to remember everything.
What’s your definition of dirty, baby? What do you consider pornography?
Twenty years after it premiered, this website is as messy and meandering as ever. (And the typical wardrobe of underwear hasn’t changed so much as shifted a couple of waist sizes up.)
And so we end the winter season 22/23. We made it through the wilderness… somehow we made it through… up next is spring, and I’m going to enter it with gratitude and mindfulness, and maybe just a little sparkle.
