Dianna Leonard By Cheryl Cumings | From BayLines Express, August, 2021 Cooking in the Dark (CND) is not the typical cooking show. It is a weekly podcast created, hosted and produced entirely by blind people About 18 years ago at a weekend get together with Phil Parr, the creator and host of “Blind Like Me” and “Blind … Read more
By Cindy Wentz | From BayLines Express, July, 2021 I love to travel! I get a big thrill out of journeying to distant destinations where the culture, the topography and the history are very different from ours in the US. A legally blind acquaintance of mine once told me she wasn’t interested in travel because … Read more
By Steve Dresser | From BayLines Express, June, 2021 Now that the warm weather is here, it’s time to think about all the things that make summer so much fun—like the smell of a backyard cookout on a warm Sunday afternoon. I had always assumed that cooking on a grill required some sight, but after … Read more
By Bill Henderson | From BayLines Express, May, 2021 I love to swim and have been doing this regularly all my life. When it is cold, I swim indoors in pools. When it is warm, I prefer to venture outside in the ocean and lakes. Losing my vision in my 40s posed some swimming challenges. … Read more
By Helen Kobek | From BayLines Express, April, 2021 Is anything (besides chocolate) more satisfying than chowing down on a hearty, healthy, fresh salad? Yes! How about chowing down on a salad made of just-picked vegetables from your own garden? Whether it’s grown in your community garden plot or in space around your house, it’s … Read more
By Jerry Berrier | From BayLines Express, March, 2021 I am an Access Technology Director at the Perkins School for the Blind. I have been an ACB member since 1982. I have been learning, and often re-learning bird sounds since I was 19 years old. I have used professionally recorded training guides, lists of mnemonics … Read more
By Emily Luz | From BayLines Express, February, 2021 I am a missionary, professional artist/writer and technology expert. I have been an advocate for the blind for the past thirty-four years. I was born with optic nerve gliomas, rendering me legally blind in both eyes with a vision of about 20/800. I was mainstreamed in … Read more
By Barbara Black | From BayLines Express, January, 2021 I live in western Massachusetts. A retired early childhood educator and public school administrator, I am totally un-athletic, and something of a wimp. Also, I have Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and haven’t had any usable vision for at least 25 years. So, why am I writing about … Read more
By Brian Charlson, President, Bay State Council of the Blind | From BayLines Express, December, 2020 2020, a year that should have been all about literal vision, became a year filled with everything but that. Racial inequality, economic imbalance, health care shortcomings and frightening trends in our weather have all taken front stage, leaving very … Read more
February 25, 2016 From the Editor Welcome to BayLines Express, the brand new monthly news digest of the Bay State Council of the Blind (BSCB). This is our inaugural issue. BayLines Express is intended to get news to you about recent and upcoming events of interest to BSCB members. It will be coming out on … Read more
