26+ years of published Op/Ed columns, professional photography, my first book and more from the 28 known galaxies!
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 Reporter 4/2016 It’s not often that “PLAY NICE” is the core of two consecutive op/eds, but here we are. If you’re new to…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 2/2016 A year ago, in 2015, before the AFC game, I wrote a column in this space…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 1/2016 My grandmother – God rest her soul – had a holiday tradition that was not exactly…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 10/2015 Once again, a school shooting. This time, in Oregon. The facts come in. This many dead. This…
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, 2/2015 This past Valentine’s Day weekend, depending on where you live, yet another blizzard dropped anywhere between 8…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 8/2014 In September 1978, at one of the most depressing and lonely times in my life, a new actor burst onto the…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 4/2014 This past week, less than one year after the Marathon bombing and its horrible aftermath, the city…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 2/2014 “Cigarettes are the only product, that if used as directed, will kill you.” – George Carlin…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 11/2013 T’was a few days before Christmas, some years back, when a company called Blockbuster still rented what…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 11/2013 “This is for you, Boston. You guys deserve it… We’ve been through a lot this year and…
The Boston City Paper is a terrific weekly newspaper and I am grateful to editor Paul Feeney for allowing me to be an unpaid contributor since 2006. His generosity with…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and The Boston City Paper, 6/2013 Last week, in light of the events in the Aaron Hernandez case, the New England Patriots…
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…