WRITING   for Ed’s Academic Writing, refer to his Vita here Threads A creative non-fiction narrative about my family since the turn of the 20th century, weaving more than 30 connections among a series of strange attractors. Front Matter .pdf BOOK ONE: TEMPLATES Preface .pdf Audio (.mp3): Front Matter & Preface .pdf files: Chaper One: Flo Lived There —The Location Connection Chapter Two: Evangeline Marie Bechtel Chapter Three: Noel and Evangeline’s Trail Chapter Four: Ron Worked There Too—The Employment Connection Chapter Five: Arthur Died Here, Cy Lived There and “I am the One” Chapter Six: Goodbye North Dakota; Hello Iowa Chapter Seven: You Call This Luck? Chapter Eight: Where and when—California, North Dakota, Iowa Chapter Nine: Roger Lamoureux Reporting for Duty Chapter Ten: Claudette’s Hartford Trail Chapter Eleven: A New Family and New Duty-Stations   ABOUT WRITING ART MUSIC INTERVIEWS SECTION 108 COURSES CONTACT               BOOK TWO: ECHOS Chapter Twelve: Eddie’s 1st Long Beach Trail Chapter Thirteen: Easy Ed and SAHS Chapter Fourteen: Not so Easy Ed—Seven Months; Too Many Mistakes Chapter Fifteen: Everything’s a Gamble Here, Right? Chapter Sixteen: “Easy Ed” & “Crazy Ed” Have Left the Building Chapter Seventeen: The Real Higher Education Trail Begins Chapter Eighteen: Enter and Exit, Disco Fast Eddie Chapter Nineteen: Francis Takes the Seattle Detour Chapter Twenty: The “Other” Emerald City Chapter Twenty-One: The Trail of Full-Circles Chapter Twenty-Two: Francis and Who? Chapter Twenty-Three: The Irony of Being Special Epilogue: Accounting For This Acknowledgments and Thanks Illustrations, Sources and References             © Ed Lamoureux 2026