‘Summer head’ meant something different in this post. Today it signifies my current state of mind, which ...
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Slowing Down the Summer Head
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Way back in the 1980’s, when I was but a wee lad, I don’t recall the crop ...
Happy Return of the Yellow Flowers
30 Jun, 2026
One of the very first garden plants I obsessively coveted was this evening primrose, which is blanketed ...
My social media engagements these days are usually far less than most people I know, coming at ...
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.

