Keeping up with a discipline depends on good health. I thought of this today because I strained my back and wondered if I'd feel up to writing my daily 111-word text. Since I started writing them, I've had only one break – of over a month due to appendicitis. Such consistency means that I have been generally healthy since the beginning of 2020 – and that's unusual for me, since I otherwise get a couple of colds and a round or two of the flu every year. Oddly enough, then, the coronavirus pandemic has been a period of relatively good health for me – social distancing has kept me healthy in general, it seems. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 31 January 2021)