Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Hearing Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" and remembering a Saturday in 1977

My daughter ends her career in youth circus

The "sad nostalgic humming" of "Mack the Knife" in Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook"

Living in infamy with Dylan, Roosevelt, and Shakespeare

Don't change any orbits, Representative Gohmert. Instead, reduce the use of fossil fuels

Translations of a line from Wallace Stevens into Spanish: "It was evening all afternoon."