Verbena bonariensis (I love that name) holds its purple heads high above the garden for a significant ...
Latest blog posts
Echoes & Remnants of a Lilac Spring
16 Aug, 2026
Plunging back into the Solid Gold Summer that has proved such a magnificently-mixed bag of emotional mayhem ...
{Note: The Madonna Timeline is an ongoing feature, where I put the iPod on shuffle and write a little ...
Signs of Aging Ahead
15 Aug, 2026
Major sign of my advancing age: I don’t fuck with bad parking scenes, I just won’t go. ...
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.

