Oklahoma has long been recognized for its premier career-tech education system. The difference between Oklahoma’s system and those in other states is its unique form of governance and funding not found anywhere else in the country. To make this visionary system possible an amendment to the Oklahoma constitution was required. Amending Oklahoma’s constitution was not an easy task and required support from both republicans and democrats, the governor, both houses of the legislature, the publi...

The author logged his first fish in 1957 when he was just 9 years old and has since been journaling his fishing trips throughout his entire life. Six decades of documenting the accounts of each trip has resulted in numerous sweet stories that naturally come from spending time on the water with family members and good friends in some of the most beautiful places on earth. In addition to these heart-warming stories, the reader will be exposed to a wealth of fishing knowledge and homespun phi...

When Tom Friedemann’s thirty-one-year marriage to his high-school sweetheart ended, he was crushed.But then a fly-fishing buddy gave him a handwritten piece of advice that read, “Just go fishing and everything will be all right.” He followed that advice and found it to be the perfect salve.In this collection of stories, he celebrates his love affair with fishing and journaling—a journey that began in 1963 in Oklahoma after he caught a 1¾ pound largemouth bass on a red-and-w...