Travels With Stacey

I am a spare bus driver.  I fill in for other drivers who cannot do their run for whatever reason.  It sometimes means I have no idea where I am going on any given day.  In one week, I did seven different routes.   This week…

We all have favourites. Let us not kid ourselves. Sure, as a parent, we never say that to our kids. It can hurt the child, and he may feel left out. But why can’t we have favourites? There is a reason why one child is…

I am a spare bus driver, so it can often be a rare event for me to have the same route for several days in a row. On this particular route, things started to get interesting. The most enjoyable times as a bus driver are…

Being a bus driver can be a thankless job. People can take the service I provide for granted when I show up every day, arrive at the correct time, and repeat the same task in the afternoon. This reliable service can become mundane and taken…

The kids are amazing.   As a bus driver, I see these young minds develop and grow.  Watching this fruition into adults brings great joy to my heart. But I also see the difficulties some children have to suffer—sad moments like what happened on my bus…

The martial art known as karate was developed because people needed to defend themselves without using weapons.  It was brought to Japan in the 1920s, where it was adapted and became known as it is today.   Or so I thought. Karate started somewhere other than…

Being a bus driver is a truly fantastic experience.  I transport young, budding minds to our educational system and see them grow into wonderful human beings. A noisy bus is good; everyone is socializing, laughing, and talking. I am a spare bus driver, and I…

I am a school bus driver. As you may know, kids are getting the best cutting-edge educational advancements. It has been three decades since I last attended school, so who am I to question the statements I learn from children as I drive them back…

As a school bus driver, I listen to some amazing conversations. Kids these days are able to access a wealth of information that was not available before the internet was invented. This is witnessed by the conversations they have with each other. We are witnessing…

I am a bus driver. I have the privileged position of taking tomorrow’s leaders to school. Not being in the educational system for decades, I am not versed in the leaps and bounds that schools have become in educating children these days. Today, I learned…