A Christmas prayer for the victims of Sandy Hook
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 12/2012 All I want to write this week is a goofy op/ed piece making fun of the 12/21/2012…
Super Storm Sandy’s aftermath, for this region, a time to be grateful, and to help those affected
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City paper 11/2012 Tuesday morning, 11:00am; still no power at home; I am off from work for the day and…
Grieving the Saint Kevin’s Property
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 7/2012 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2012 ived my first 25 years in Dorchester, and while I have moved away, I am…
Why are we so angry?
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 3/2011 Why are we so angry? One of the magazines I read featured a recent editorial on that…
The customer, most assuredly, is NOT always right: A cashier’s bill of rights
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 8/2010 All of us have cashier and store clerk horror stories and instances where “customer service” was…
Schoolyard bullying is no right of passage
By Robert Gillis Originally published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/2005, rewritten and updated for 4/2010 publication, and also published in the Boston City Paper, 4/2010. The sound is so loud…
Press on, newspapers!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and The Boston City Paper, 5/2009 As this is a column about a newspaper, specifically the Boston Globe, allow me to begin…
Memo: Cost-cutting measures during these tough economic times
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 3/2009 We all have colleagues who have lost jobs, taken massive pay cuts, and face uncertainty how…
Supporting the soldiers
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 2006, 2008 and Boston City Paper, December 2006 Veteran’s Day 2006, New York City, Times Square, Planet Hollywood Restaurant. My wife Sue,…
Congratulations to George Takei and Brad Altman, married 9/14/2008!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 10/2008 I met George Takei in 1990 and along with my best friend David and DC Comics’ Arne Starr, we had…
Unruly Boston sports fans are a disgrace
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 6/2008 Boston sports fans: What the hell is the matter with you people? The Red Sox / Patriots / Your College…
Lottery Folly
By Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter and in the Boston City paper 3/2007 It’s early morning and I had scored the impossible in Boston: On-street parking, not ten…
Cell Phone Abuse
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 5/2007 While I am generally not prone to murderous rage, I think one day I’m just going…
In the deep mid-Winter
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 3/2007 In my youth (or my yoot, to all the Cousin Vinney fans) I loved extreme weather.…
Star Trek actor George Takei demonstrates Infinite Diversity
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 1/2007 and the Foxboro Reporter 2/2007 In late 2005, actor George Takei (Captain Sulu) from Star Trek “came out” as a…