Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The Aphorism Quartet at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, and the Kern-Hammerstein standard “Nobody Else But Me"

Smoking and Sherlock Holmes in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” (2005)

The founding of Basiliska by anti-Anselmite monks in the year 1111

The loudest screamer, yeller, and complainer is a fraudster

The journeys of my quest for musical transformation: through a November snowstorm and a cool spring evening to hear Andreas Schärer at the Klavierwerkstatt in Liestal

Working "against those determined to score political points at the expense of an incredibly vulnerable population” (John Oliver, “ICE Detention”, “Last Week Tonight”, 9 March 2025)