OFFICIAL BLOG of MARK G. BEARSS

Coincidence, or Synchronicity?
40,800 students were enrolled at Michigan State University in the fall of 1969. I was one of them starting my freshman year. I lived in the twelve-story dorm on the far eastern edge of campus known as Hubbard North. 1,100 students were housed and fed there.

It happened AGAIN!
In pursuit of due diligence, I was seeking the offices for The Muskegon Chronicle newspaper and get permission to borrow the paper’s name for my next novel. Google Maps provided a downtown Muskegon, Michigan, address. Upon entering the front door, I found myself standing in a physical therapy clinic. I was informed the parent company that owns the newspaper moved out of that site two years ago. They never updated Google Maps.

FLY STRAIGHT AND LEVEL
In September 1976, shortly after I earned my Private Pilot license, I invited my father to go flying with me in a Cessna 150. I

Power and Authority
During my career as a clinical educator for an international medical device manufacturer, I had the opportunity to sit in on a lecture moderated by