Celebrating Centennials & Counting

A record, I suppose; for the record, I Francisco have written 100 Franciscan essays published online by the American Chronicle in the last 100 weeks, from February 2006 to December 2007. I didn’t count before, but those 100 now make me feel I count a lot.

100 suddenly is important to me, you understand. I tell you, 100 is a perfect count; I’m 100% sure of that. Literally, the word ‘percent,’ per + centum (Latin), means ‘per hundred.’ Figuratively, 100 means perfect, excellent.

In journalism, you write 30 and you’re finished; in science writing, I write 100 and I’ve just began. Full essay

Recent Entries

• The Crucifixion of Cruz.
• PS,
• A Thinker’s Faith.
• Grey-To-Green Revolution.
• 100.
• A Fractured Hero.
• The Audacity of Hype.
• Your Metaphors Man.
• An Inconvenient Troth.
• The Stonecasters.

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