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May, 2025: Foxboro Senior Center moving to new location – the end of an era Pope Francis Has Passed Away — Rest In Peace Holy Father — “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Letter to the Editor / New Electronic Information Signs On Foxboro Common — Distracting and Dangerous Read My Book – “Nana, my grandmother Anne Gillis” Top 10 Reasons why Foxborough Founders Day 2024 is AWESOME!
Star Trek

Binge-Watching Star Trek Discovery during COVID-19 — a VERY entertaining Trek

June 24, 2020 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis5/2020 One of the benefits of quarantine (such as it is) — I’m halfway through Star Trek: Discovery Season 2. The reviews I read all talk CANON. And…

Current Events / News Commentary

Black Lives Matter

June 5, 2020 Robert Gillis

by Robert GillisPublished in the Boston City Paper, June 7, 2020 It has happened to me TWICE this week that I have said, “Black Lives Matter” and someone responded, “All…

Current Events / News Commentary Dorchester Foxboro

America 2020: Protests, Violence, Racism — Divided We Fall

May 31, 2020 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter May 31, 2020 I grew up in a very poor section of Dorchester. The Parish was (and is) quite diverse — White,…

Web / Email / Internet / Social Media

Do not feed the online trolls in the comment section and Facebook groups

May 16, 2020 Robert Gillis

by Robert GillisMay 16, 2020, 2…, maybe 3 A.M.? i think it was the guy who said sunshine kills COVID-19 that finally pushed me over the edge. You just cannot…

Christmas Theater

Welcoming Ghosts of Christmas at the North Shore Music Theater with David Coffee

December 21, 2019 Robert Gillis

December 21, 2019: And then this happened. Once again having the privilege to speak with David Coffee, Mr. Ebeneezer Scrooge, and tonight congratulating him on his 26th year in this…

Life events, Gratitude and Giving and Little Miracles

My final column for the Foxboro Reporter: “Goodbye, Farewell And Amen: The Writer Steps Off The Stage”

July 3, 2019 Robert Gillis

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…

Foxboro

New Electronic Sign For The Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center / Orpheum Theater Deserves A YES Vote At Town Meeting

April 29, 2019 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 5/2019 Our annual town meeting will be May 13, 2019, and I would like to use this space to encourage you to…

Catholic / Church Current Events / News Commentary News image from Web

The Church still stands: Remembering the promise of Easter Sunday after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire

April 16, 2019 Robert Gillis

By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 4/2019 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” — John…

Foxboro Sports

Twenty-Five takeaways from Sunday’s Patriots Super Bowl sendoff rally, Sunday January 28, 2019

January 28, 2019 Robert Gillis

By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 1/2019 and the Boston City Paper 2/2019 1. I am SO glad the weather wasn’t what we had last Sunday; no way…

Christmas

Dinner with Mom brings back Memories of Christmas Past

December 2, 2018 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis Published In The Foxboro Reporter 12/2018 This past Friday at my weekly visit to Mom, over two helpings of chicken broccoli Ziti, Mom and I caught on…

Current Events / News Commentary Politics

Washington 2018: Have you no sense of decency?

October 17, 2018 Robert Gillis

By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and The Boston City Paper, 10/2018 “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. ……

Computers / Tech Web / Email / Internet / Social Media

My 3:00 A.M. Facebook Reboot Get a grip folks. It’s only Facebook)

August 28, 2018 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 9/2018 Social media, particularly Facebook, has been in the news these past months for various reasons. It’s very…

Boston Life events, Gratitude and Giving and Little Miracles

“Open your eyes,” a story of my encounter with two homeless people

June 25, 2018 Robert Gillis

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…

Boston

Boston, you’re my home! (A two day Boston Adventure)

April 25, 2018 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 5/2018 Also published in OnTray Magazine, June 2018! The City of Boston is one of my favorite photographic…

Life events, Gratitude and Giving and Little Miracles

Zen and Art of Writing Op/Eds – I still have a lot to say!

March 18, 2018 Robert Gillis

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…

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