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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Sep 30, 20235 min read
Conquered cont...
Our headlamps struggled to break up the shroud of darkness that surrounded us. The rhythmic crunch of our feet, the rumble of the packs...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Sep 2, 20235 min read
Conquered
The wind battered the manufactured house all night. I knew I wasn’t going to sleep well, but the rattling of the window didn’t help. My...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jul 29, 20235 min read
Acsent
Millions of years ago there was a tree. That tree, like all living things, eventually ran its course, died, and fell to the ground to...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jul 2, 20234 min read
No Calm Before the Storm
In the few weeks leading up to the race, I thought my body was falling apart. My knee bothered me and I kept thinking I would pull a...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Apr 29, 20235 min read
Bronze
The tree in my front yard froze and snapped in half. My rental house was about a year old when another biblical winter storm blew in and...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Apr 2, 20235 min read
Temperance
Hushed whispers in the dark. Pale figures illuminated only by the faint white glow of a string on camp lights hung from a 10x10 folding...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Mar 5, 20237 min read
Fragility cont.
People talk about a runner’s high. Honestly I don’t know what that is. I’ve heard people describe it but personally I don’t feel I’ve...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Feb 25, 20236 min read
Fragility
My demons are small. The ghosts who follow me know this. They haunt me with laughing smiles at my pain, for theirs was much greater. The...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Feb 10, 20234 min read
Ghosts and Monsters: Fire and Water
The last time I ran the Beast in 2017, I felt like the prevailing element surrounding me was fire. I burned with anger, the cancer burned...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Feb 3, 20233 min read
Ghosts and Monsters: The Storm
A storm is coming, you look up expecting it, face it, eyes looking in the dark for signs of clouds. Light flashes briefly illuminating...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Ghosts and Monsters: “Be the Dragon…”
There is a phenomenon my fellow sword fighters share: we call it the Post Tournament Blues. I may have mentioned it before. After an...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jan 13, 20235 min read
Ghosts and Monsters: The Beast
The shadows in the Valley dance away from the light, and within the shadows live ghosts and monsters. And so, near the end of October, my...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Dec 9, 20225 min read
When did we stop playing?
At some point, we all stopped playing. Some will disagree and say “I never got old, I stayed young and I still play”. But that’s not...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Oct 16, 20225 min read
RTTB: Second Chances
“You are discovering who you really are” Echoes of things said and not said bounce in my mind. The afterimages of the things I’ve done...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Sep 17, 20225 min read
RTTB: Gathering Storm
After my father died, I just wanted a day; a day alone, a day to myself…a day I could just be. It would be a few years before I got it...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Aug 27, 20225 min read
RTTB: Enchanted, The Prophecy Stone
Sometime during last winter, I started getting interested in crystals. I think I always liked rocks and gems, I mean, who doesn’t go...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jul 22, 20225 min read
RTTB: Enchanted (pt 1)
I can’t really say I woke up. It was more like I was tired of lying on the ground trying to sleep. The sky was a glowing indigo and the...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Jun 10, 20225 min read
RTTB: Enchanted (Prelude)
I could see the blue glowing moon out of my peripheral as I lay in the tent. The door flap was open and above me were the white burning...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
May 12, 20225 min read
RTTB: Of Snails, Storms and Spartans PT 2
My foot hurt. The sleeve I had on my ankle was too tight so I took it off. I was in the first non competitive wave. The course was a 5k,...
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Beau.Hulgan.writer
Apr 5, 20225 min read
RTTB: Of Snails Storms and Spartans; Part 1
The first day of Spring was ushered in by tornadoes. Days before I was in a plane flying over a lightning storm under a full moon. The...
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