Lee Hutch's Blog

Friends,

In June of 2023, I bought a Red Dodge Challenger SXT. I named her Molly, since Molly (the heroine of my novel Molly’s Song helped pay for her). The SXT was the base model Challenger with a V6 engine. I really wanted an R/T, but they cost 10-15K more and were not as fuel efficient. At the time, I was driving 100 miles round trip to work and back five days a week, and so I needed something that would be better at the gas pump. I had no idea that a scant s...

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It is time for my annual year in review post! As I noted in the 2023 year in review, in August of that year, I accepted a tenure track position at a community college much closer to home. January of 2024 marked the start of my second semester. I teach most of my classes off-site, meaning that rather than being on the main campus, most of my face to face classes are at local high schools. I pop in and teach dual credit courses to high school juniors. Dual credit means that th...

Dear Readers,

I hope this missive finds you well. The first thing you will notice is that Molly’s Song has a new cover! It is a long story as to how this came about, but it came about, and thus the new cover. It is still available in all the usual formats, paperback, eBook, and audiobook. If you haven’t gotten a copy yet, you can do so here. With the new release, the eBook is a mere 99 cents!

I had a really good spring semester, and I went into the summer with all sorts of grand plans....

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I am writing this missive to you from what was ground zero for Hurricane Beryl. Our house was spared any major damage, and we are all okay. There are trees and branches down all over the place. Fortunately, we were not among the 2.1 million people without power, most of whom, forty-eight hours after the storm, are still without it. And with the heat index over 105 at that.

Honestly, the wind damage is similar to what I saw during and after Hurricane Ike in 2008, but thank...

Friends,

It has been a long time since last we spoke, so I now take pen in hand to write my annual year in review post. I did not go into 2023 with any grand plans or resolutions as I don’t really do much of either of those things. 2023 would end up being an….interesting year, in some ways good and in some ways quite bad.

I was happy when the spring semester started because for the first time since I started teaching full time for the college, all my classes would be on the campus wher...

Dear Friends,

I figured I would write a quick midyear update for you. Unfortunately, I mean the title of this missive literally. My wife had a stroke in early May. It was kind of a surprise because you don’t see many strokes in people in their mid 40s and she’s always been the healthy one. Apparently, she has had very high blood pressure for a long time, but it never gave her symptoms and since she doesn’t need to go to the doctor very often, she was unaware of it until the stroke. If the...

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It has been quite some time since my last post, but as the New Year’s Eve year in review has become sort of a tradition, I figured that I would do one for this year as well. The latter part of 2021 was filled with hospitalizations and surgeries for me and I went into 2022 hoping that it would be, at least somewhat, of a better year. But…you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men.

I returned to work for the spring semester in January with more than a l...

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It has been a long time since I have made a post. I think my last one was my annual New Years Eve post. Now, Spring Break is here, although based on the low of 35 degrees last night, you wouldn’t have guessed it. As I two weekends and the week in between with no work responsibilities, I thought I would take pen in and hand and let you know what is going on.

The...

Dear Readers,

I have taken pen in hand to write my annual year in review post. 2020 was a tough year for me personally, for reasons unrelated to the Rona, and I thought that surely 2021 would be better. Welp….that was not to be.

January of 2021 began with a note of optimism as the government was starting to distribute vaccines. As someone in a high risk category, I was fortunate to be able to get my first shot (Moderna) towards the end of January. Three times over the course of the spr...

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It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to address a few lines to you. The past few years have been very rough on me physically. I live in constant pain and my life consists of surgeries, complications, more surgeries, and more complications. I am constantly shuttling off from one doctor’s appointment to the next, or at least that is how it seems. I’m 43 but now look like I’m 65 from the strain. Truthfully, this has been a long time coming and I’ve had a draft of th...