Dianna Leonard

MUSINGS FROM THE BLIND BIRDER: A Story of Determination and Passion

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By Martha Steele | Reprinted with permission from Bird Observer October 2022, Volume 50, Number 5:350-352. www.birdobserver.org. Recently, Bob and I birded with Jerry Berrier, who has been totally blind from birth due to retinopathy of prematurity, where the infant receives too much oxygen following birth. Our morning walk along trails in the Middlesex Fells … Read more

Cooking on Television

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By Brian Charlson | From BayLines Express, September, 2022 Having donated home-baked cookies as well as BBQ and taco parties as items at both BSCB and ACB fund-raising auctions, it should come as no surprise that I love to cook and bake. Over the years this has allowed me to show the sighted world that … Read more

Diving Into String Quartets

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By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, August, 2022 For many years, the Manhattan String Quartet (MSQ) has run week-long conferences in Europe in January and in the U.S. in June. Each conference focuses intensely on one string quartet, between thirty and forty-five minutes in length. Participants spend many hours each day dissecting the music, … Read more

Picture This

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By Steve Dresser | From BayLines Express, June, 2022 Even though I had heard about them, I never seriously considered a “smart” doorbell or a security camera. Then one day, a neighbor called to inform me that he had found a package on the sidewalk that appeared to be medicine. I had been expecting such … Read more

Ode to My First iPhone: Ten Years Later

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By David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, May, 2022 Crinkled-up papers, tangles of wires, candy wrappers and other random paraphernalia are scattered over the desk of my little home office. A few weeks ago, I took a bulldozer to it as a spring-cleaning project. As my fingers were fumbling around, and to my surprise and delight, I came across a familiar boxy little hard plastic object. It was my very first iPhone: my … Read more