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 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
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
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
