Mostly by James Murphy | From BayLines Express, April, 2022 Dear BSCB: On Saturday October 2nd, after last year’s baseball season ended, the Central Mass. Chapter of BSCB took a tour of Worcester’s shiny new Polar Park, the new home of the Red Sox Triple-A team, the Worcester Red Sox (WooSox). They are the highest … Read more
On Saturday, March 26, the BSCB Social Committee hosted our second Story Slam virtually on Zoom. About thirty persons attended, and 9 story tellers regaled the audience with sometimes funny and sometimes poignant tales. A story slam is an opportunity to tell a favorite story to a crowd. It’s like karaoke (that is “kareeoki” for … Read more
By Jerry Berrier | From BayLines Express, March, 2022 When I signed up to take a bus trip with my chapter of the Bay State Council of the Blind to Boston to see an audio described theater performance, I never dreamed it would lead to a chance to experience ice fishing. We had arranged to … Read more
By Ginger Dudkiewicz | From BayLines Express, February, 2022 The read aloud book, Sugar on Snow, became a family bedtime favorite. Little did we know where it would take us. The kids regularly asked us if we could make maple sugar. My husband Dan and his brothers talked. Ed came by with a manual brace … Read more
By Helen Kobek, Copyright Helen Kobek | From BayLines Express, January, 2022 Your adrenal glands – familiarly called “adrenals” – don’t have the Public Relations of, say, the heart, or the brain. And they sound like “renal” even though they have nothing to do with kidneys, other than that they are attached on top of … Read more
By Helen Kobek | From BayLines Express, October, 2021 If you’ve had a garden this past Spring, Summer, and into the Fall, you might be looking towards getting it ready to make it through the winter. Hard freezes damage most plants – any plants that favor warmer weather. Their tissue just cannot handle the cold … Read more
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
