I was born in a city near two lakes. When I was three, my family moved to a city on a western coast. Over the next twenty years (except for one year on an island across an eastern ocean), I moved back and forth between those lake and western regions. I then moved to a city on the eastern coast. Later, I moved across that eastern ocean to a foreign capital, where I met my wife. After living in a smaller city in that country, I moved to a riverside city in a nearby mountainous country, where we had three children and I have now lived for half of my life. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 17 April 2025)

Inspired by an idea from a poet from that island: "I thought it would be fun to write a biographical note that said everything there was space for, but named nothing."