Dianna Leonard By Dennis Polselli | From BayLines Express, May, 2023 This may be an unusual column for Bay Lines, but I think the subject is familiar to you all. Lately I’ve been reading a book: Caution Blind Priest Driving The Story of Father Thomas J. Carroll Changing Public Perceptions of Blindness by Rachel Rosenbaum and all … Read more
By Tim Cumings | From BayLines Express, February, 2023 People say that one of the most stressful events in a person’s life is moving. I would add that as a blind person this stress is multiplied by a factor of ten. After having lived in one place for twenty-four years, the thought of moving even … Read more
By David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2022 As this year draws to a close, we can be proud of several big successes. The Votes Act, which was signed by the Governor in July, introduced fully accessible online voting statewide. This effort built on BSCB efforts undertaken in collaboration with the Disability Law Center … Read more
By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, November, 2022 Carol Fithian is a woman of boundless curiosity. She has been a researcher, published author, park ranger for the National Park Service on the Boston Harbor Islands, and the Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Training for the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands. She selected and … Read more
By Cindy Wentz | From BayLines Express, October, 2022 Cold and wind make me long for my bed – or at least my couch bundled up in an afghan. Flying, buzzing, biting critters give me the creeps. And I am not particularly interested in exercising to the point of heavy breathing and copious perspiration. Isn’t … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
