Beau Hulgan

Our headlamps struggled to break up the shroud of darkness that surrounded us. The rhythmic crunch of our feet, the rumble of the packs...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A storm is coming, you look up expecting it, face it, eyes looking in the dark for signs of clouds. Light flashes briefly illuminating...

There is a phenomenon my fellow sword fighters share: we call it the Post Tournament Blues. I may have mentioned it before. After an...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Sometime during last winter, I started getting interested in crystals. I think I always liked rocks and gems, I mean, who doesn’t go...

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...

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...

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,...

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...