Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Shingles vaccination: My ninth vaccination shot in just over eleven months

My linguistic autobiography: Learning English as a child in the US and the UK

An interview about my language history, two decades ago

"Loving small" and "what's left to love" in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Jazz"

How critics have talked about the anonymous, ungendered narrator of Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

On not watching Manchester City and Liverpool