Push cart cuts the mustard — “The Common Dog” on Foxboro Common
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 6/27/1996 One of the nicer aspects of taking a vacation and staying…
It’s ‘service with a sneer’ — bad customer service
By Robert Gillis One of my very first columns published in the Foxboro reporter, 6/1996 THIS WAS ONE OF MY…
Technology: Time to draw clear line between work and play
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 5/1996 “Have you ever sent a fax… From the beach? Have you…
Despite problems, Foxboro’s got a lot to offer (my very first op/ed as a regular contributor to the Foxboro Reporter, 4/1996)
Historians note, 2015: after I wrote my first full-length piece about the Foxboro senior center in early 1996, this piece…
My very first Reporter Column; Support your seniors!
(After many letters to the editor, I submitted this, my first full-length column to the Reporter. After it ran, I…
Letter: This is New England, it Snows Here
Before I started my regular column in the Foxboro Reporter I was writing a lot of letters to the editor;…
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: “Tempus Fugitiive,” A Critique
by Robert Gillis March 25, 1995 “Hello! Duh! Clark Kent is Superman. Ha, ha, ha. Well, that was worth the…
Letter I wrote to DC Comics when Superman died
Here’s an oldie but a goodie, the only letter I ever wrote to DC Comics (back when they had letter…
One of the first times I was published — Computer Magazine MICROpendium (1987)
WAY back in the day (1987) I got published in a computer magazine for the first time. MICRopendium was the…