The spring of 2026 marked my 50th spring on this earth, yet for all those years behind ...
Latest blog posts
Spring’s Back End (and Mine)
20 Jun, 2026
This may be one of the first springs where I feel a twinge of melancholy at its ...
The Sky is Crying
19 Jun, 2026
This slow-burn of a song, ‘The Sky is Crying‘, feels like a fitting start to the finale ...
At the half-century mark of life, one processes things much differently than at the quarter-century mark of ...
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.

