Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Denise Levertov dancing to "Workingman's Dead"

Bull crit with Flaubert, Joyce, and Dostoevsky

Coming out of "Ice Age 2" with a six-year-old after nightfall

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"