Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Getting into Keith Moon’s drumming on The Who’s 1971 singles compilation “Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy"

From Diane Seuss’s “frank: sonnets” (2021) to the invention of Russian Matryoshka dolls (1890)

The homesickness of Rezia Smith in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925)

Emily Dickinson’s birthday and Austin Dickinson’s new hat

On not grading essays

The many great covers on Rebekka Bakken’s “Always on My Mind” (2023), including Greg Brown’s “Brand New Angel"