Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Bleeding Heart Yard, in London and Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit", and the history of "bleeding hearts"

An Accident and Two Coincidences: An English poem in heroic couplets about our pediatrician and Roger Federer

Remembering Roger Federer on his retirement from tennis

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Imagine" as conceptual art (according to Louis Menand)

Email from Intakt Records and an album with the late Fredy Studer

Reading an old article in Republik and coming across Plato and Claude Shannon