26+ years of published Op/Ed columns, professional photography, my first book and more from the 28 known galaxies!
Today in history: May 29, , Along with myself, David MacDonald, Robert Farrell (RIP), John Sebastian (sorry we lost touch, your friendship was epic), and about 200 classmates graduated from…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, and in edited form for the Boston City Paper, July 2019 (WordPress date updated so that this post always appears first on…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 7/2018 “When I close my eyes, so I would not see / My Lord did trouble me…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper, 3/2018 While Op-Ed pieces are by their very definition a personal opinion, I hope you will indulge this oddly self-serving personal…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 12/2017 Three stories. All of the same message. One of my closest friends from high school –…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City paper 11/2017 “We will be okay.” It’s Sunday; I’m driving around Foxboro Common and I pass the Universalist…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 8/2017 Checking into FaceBook on my lunch break and I see that a few friends are going through…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 12/2016 It’s early December and I am wondering in a store or two, looking at the rows of…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 5/2016 It’s Saturday morning, and like so many others around town I am running errands. Driving on Mechanic…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reorter 7/2015 Last week, for the first time in many years, I wrote a full column for this space, and then proceeded to,…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 11/2014 The month of November means many things: the beginning of the Christmas season (at precisely one second…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 7/2014 A fair warning friends, this one isn’t summer fluff. Every now and then, I look up a…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 3/2013 The water heals. I’m a little kid, enjoying one of an uncountable number of childhood trips…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 9/2012 “I need to tell you that you’re going to remember this night for the rest of…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 6/2012 In the past year, four people I know very well, including two childhood friends, have lost…