By Cindy Wentz | From BayLines Express, February, 2025 While I have always been legally blind, my vision has taken a huge hit in the past few decades. I’ve gone from reading print and walking without a cane or dog to not seeing much at all. Fortunately, technology has developed in the inverse proportion to … Read more
by Sharon Strzalkowski | From BayLines Express, November, 2024 On the morning of September 25, I was outside at 6:35 to get my shared van to the airport and onto a retreat in North Carolina. “Candle in the Window,” a wonderful non-religious retreat just for blind and low vision people, was planned for that Wednesday … Read more
By Lill Johnson | From BayLines Express, October, 2024 I consider myself very fortunate to have done a lot of traveling to many destinations, including Europe, the islands, and of course elsewhere in the States. Each trip was very positive and remains etched in my mind. Some of the trips included riverboats, which brought much … Read more
By Sharon Strzalkowski | From BayLines Express, October 2023 With some trepidation, I decided a couple of months ago to fly for the first time since before the pandemic. I wanted to go to a blindness retreat called Candle in the Window. My hesitation was not concerning Covid but, rather, how much help I would … 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 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 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
