Adam HughesinWith YouWrestling With GodGrowing up, being a Christian, a good church-goer, a good boy who didn’t drink or smoke or curse was not considered an option — it was the…Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouScrum Half LifeWhen I first started playing rugby, being a total beginner, and a very skinny one at that, I was assigned to play on the wing. The wing is…Jul 5, 2019Jul 5, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouAnd Now For Something DifferentFor as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by geography — both real and imagined. If a book had a map in the front, I was more…Jun 30, 2019Jun 30, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouNice TryOur sixth and final game of my first rugby season was against Rocktown. It was a home game and I was desperate to play. I’d made the roster…Jun 27, 2019Jun 27, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouPractice…We’re Talking About PracticeMy first night ever practicing rugby was a night in mid-January. Practice started at seven p.m. and I was late. I worked a day job at a…Jun 24, 2019Jun 24, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouLove is a Battlefield…or a Rugby PitchWhen I was younger I never once told my friends that I wanted to be thirty-six and twice divorced. For some reason, that dream never…Jun 21, 2019Jun 21, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouFear and Loathing in LynchburgI have always been painfully skinny. Not merely thin — skinny. Eighteen years ago I was voted by my high school graduating classmates…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Adam HughesinWith YouAbout MeWelcome! I am a thirty-six year old poet living in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. I’m father to a ten-year-old daughter…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
