Blogging | Gerry Roberts

More journal excerpts – September and October 2026

Posted on October 28, 2026 Leave a Comment

Journal excerpt

Excerpts from my journal – September 2026

Posted on October 17, 2026 Leave a Comment

A keyboard writer of many years, I want to find out if handwriting inspires me differently, if different thoughts or ways of expressing thoughts spring up in my head. I’ve left my laptop at home and unwrapped a notebook I bought in Kunming earlier this year. The Amex lounge works only because it is better […]

A childhood memory

Posted on October 16, 2026 Leave a Comment

I don’t remember much from the times before my age attained double figures. But I see mangos, large, oval shaped, with a projection like a parrot’s beak at one end. Parrot mangoes. An obvious name. I can still smell them; I can still taste them. But it is the tree that stands out in my […]