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
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