The post-birthday breakfast is one of my favorite moments – all the pressure is off, the new ...
Latest blog posts
A Quiet Boston Birthday, Part 3
29 Aug, 2026
The dawn of my fifty-first birthday was quietly beautiful – the sun was out, there was a ...
The ride to Boston for my birthday was fraught with rain and heavy traffic, but upon arriving ...
Introductory Boston Birthday Post
28 Aug, 2026
Sipping a mango-dragonfruit refresher at a sidewalk cafe in the South End, I feel slightly nostalgic on ...
About Alan Ilagan
Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.

