Author: Dianna Leonard

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 …

By David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2022 As this year draws to a close, we can be proud of several big successes. The Votes Act, which was signed by the Governor in July, introduced fully accessible online voting statewide …

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 …

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 …

By Martha Steele | Reprinted with permission from Bird Observer October 2022, Volume 50, Number 5:350-352. www.birdobserver.org. Recently, Bob and I birded with Jerry Berrier, who has been totally blind from birth due to retinopathy of prematurity, where the infant receives …

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 …