One Story at a Time
A Wake-Up Call for Families
Who Think They’re Fine.
A Wake-Up Call for Families Who Think They’re Fine.
This book is more than a story. It’s a warning, a lesson,
and a chance for families to stay whole.
This book is more than a story. It’s a warning, a lesson, and a chance for families to stay whole.
About The Book
A True Story of Love, Loss, and Lessons Learned
Growing up in a lively, adventure-filled family can be beautiful until silence, assumptions, and unresolved issues slowly tear it apart.
Broken Family shares the joy, fun, and heartbreak of a childhood in a small Iowa town and the emotional journey of watching a once close family divide.
What This Book Teaches:
- How small misunderstandings can grow into long-term division.
- Why communication and fairness are essential for family unity.
- The importance of supporting aging parents together.
- How to prevent siblings from taking advantage of parents.
- How to avoid family conflict during estate planning.
What You’ll Discover
Expanding on the fun, laughter, and excitement of growing up in a big family.
How a joyful home slowly became divided and what caused the cracks.
The truths the author discovered from watching his family fall apart.
Practical tips for staying connected, fair, and supportive of one another.
Key Highlights Section
- Honest, heartfelt storytelling
- Real lessons from real experiences
- Inspirational guidance for families
- A blend of fun, nostalgia, and life-changing insight
What Makes This Book Special
Real Experience
Not fiction, but a heartfelt narrative shaped by real family events.
Heartfelt and Relatable
Anyone with a family will learn something meaningful.
Guiding Wisdom
Helps families avoid the same mistakes by revealing how small issues grow.
A true story that reveals how small, unseen issues can break a family, and how honesty, fairness, and compassion can keep yours whole.
Meet The Author
Donald Hutchinson
Don is the second born of a family with nine boys and three girls. Family has always been important to him. He always tried to please and help his mother with housework and his father with farm work to the best of his ability. Don did not have to be told a second time to do some things. He spent two years with the army in New Jersey at the Nike base.
After discharge from the army, he went to work for American Airlines for thirty-seven years. Retirement gave him many days of freedom. He golfed for a year, bought ten acres south of Winterset, Iowa, built three ponds, a covered bridge over his overflow, a small barn, a six-bedroom house, and planted a one-acre garden.
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After about eight years of enjoying his adventure of that achievement, he discovered a slow pitch ball. He began playing ball again, which he enjoyed so much in his youth. Remember, his family was of nine boys and three girls: a baseball team and cheerleaders. He still plays for three different teams: seventy-five-year-old and eighty-year-old travel teams. Every June, he meets the challenges the Senior Olympics have to offer in football distance (he has taken first place in his
age each year), softball accuracy, etc.
He has over a hundred medals from his years of competition. In the summer of 2018, he was inducted in the Senior Games Hall of Fame. Don has been blessed in his life and
enjoys sharing the good and bad of his life so far, which he knows has made him what he has become today.
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