Micah Burkette » Health & Fitness

Learning About Home Schools

Micah — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:40:10 +0000

While getting a haircut today, I was sitting next to a nice woman, Gail, who was talking about home schooling with another woman in the waiting area. Not that I intended to eavesdrop, but they were talking across the room loudly and everyone could hear.

Turns out that she was having so much trouble with her public school about her son with ADHD and she could not afford a private school, that she withdrew him from school and is home schooling her son by herself. She had gone to college to be a teacher but had gotten married to someone in the military and they traveled so much that she could never take a job as a full time teacher.

Now they have settled in this area and their son is struggling with a lot of attention issues, which the teachers complain are disruptive. I thought that the schools were required to provide this child with the education suited to his needs. I do not agree with the idea that disruptive students must be sent home for homeschooling. Not every parent is equipped with the skills to teach their own children – many have jobs that they need to support their families and cannot stay home with their children.

I am going to have to get in touch with my local congressmen and see what is being done to help these children.

Belated Holiday Greeting

Micah — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:32:24 +0000

Got a nice card from an old friend today, Lindsay. She apologized for being late with the cards but she has had a lot going on at her house, so she wrote a nice long letter and enclosed it with the card.

Her husband was on his way home from work a couple of weeks before Christmas and some woman with two little kids on the car ran a stop sign and broadsided him. He has been in the hospital in traction since the accident. To top it all off, the woman who hit him did not have insurance.Of course, his car was totalled. Thankfully he was driving a big Mercury or his injuries could have been a lot worse.

I feel really bad for Lindsay and her family. Just when you least expect it, something catastrophic like this happens and your whole world grinds to a halt. Of curse, she is lucky that no one was killed. But that is small comfort when your husband is lying in a hospital bed and not able to work for an unknown length of time.

Star Wars Marathon

Micah — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:40:35 +0000

Not feeling very healthy today. I sure hope I don’t have the flu. I really don’t feel well at all. So today I’m staying home, sleeping on the couch, eating chicken noodle soup and keeping a big box of Puffs tissues close by. Sure glad I found a Star Wars marathon on cable today. That will make the time fly by, and if I fall asleep during the movie its no big deal.

Hot Enuff

Micah — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:14:29 +0000

Yes, it is hot enough for me. The temperature officially broke 100 degrees everywhere in Middle Tennessee. The weather report said that it felt like 125 degrees. Thankfully I was in an air conditioned office all day. I didn’t even want to go out lunch and deal with the heat – I just brown bagged it. We need a break from this heat – it’s only July. What on earth will August bring?

Cold Snap

Micah — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:31:39 +0000

The weather has been great – March has gone out like a lamb, so that saying has proven true once again. And the groundhog was right, too – we did have an early Spring. I am so glad to have this winter behind us and gone.

Although most of the week was warm days and days, we are having a little cold snap this weekend. It’s all good – you can’t mess with Mother Nature.

Todd Cerney Benefit Concert

Micah — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:03:20 +0000

Heading out in a couple of hours for the benefit concert downtown. The money raised will help a songwriter pay his medical expenses while he is fighting cancer. His outlook is not all that good, but he has a lot of friends in the music business and I know they will all come out en force to support a fellow musician.

It’s Hot

Micah — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:15:44 +0000

With this heat wave, it gets very hard to be motivated enough to cut the grass and do other chores outdoors.

It seems that most of the country is having a very hot summer, with record setting high temperatures all along the East Coast and throughout the southeast. The temperature has been above 90 degrees since the third week of May. We may well set a new record for the number of consecutive days with temperatures above 90 degrees.

Vancouver Olympics

Micah — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:52:49 +0000

The winter Olympics are being held in Vancouver this year. The winter sports includes some of my favorite competitions, such as ice hockey and downhill skiing. I’ve never been to Vancouver but would really like to find a way to go there soon. I bet there is plenty of things to see and do, even after the Olympics are finished.

Drink More Water

Micah — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:48:45 +0000

When it is this hot, I sweat. It has been so hot that as soon as you step out of the shower you start sweating again. I’ve been using a fan in the living room to help keep my airconditioning use down, but it is really uncomfortable in the middle of the day and it takes a long time to cool back down at night. I’m trying to drink a lot more water and stay out of the house during the day as much as I can.

Ant Invasion

Micah — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:01:37 +0000

This mornng when I stepped off the porch and headed to the car, I noticed that something was moving on the steps. So I stopped and took a closer look and found out that there are like a million ants going across my step and up to the house and they disappear into a little crack between the bricks and the siding.

So I went back in the house and found a can of bug spray and unloaded the whole can on those suckers. I hate bugs.