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Writing
Literary nonfiction, narrative medicine, peer-reviewed clinical work, Jewish life, disability, grief and memory. Most of it is free to read at the link.
When Lindy Saved My Life
BLAST online anthology. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, 2025.
Breathing Felt Like Betrayal
Tiny Love Stories.
The Last Injection
Issue 16. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2025.
The Afikoman
Issue 18. Ritual, memory, and the interrupted search.
Change Your Habits, Change Your Life
Print anthology, not online. The Suburban covered the contribution and the essay behind it.
The Day I Stopped Apologizing for Being Tired
Columbia University's journal of narrative medicine. Fatigue as a physiological consequence of continuous self-regulation, not a personal failing.
The Language of Endurance
What the body communicates before language catches up.
The Quiet Between the Words
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Temporal Discontinuity in Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Brief report. An 89-day series of 25,536 CGM readings: circular temporal topology preserved 12.1% more information than midnight segmentation, 3.56 bits against 3.18, p < 0.001. doi:10.1177/15209156261435242 · publisher
Seventeen Alarms at 3 A.M.
Environmental trauma during hospital care for diabetic ketoacidosis. 2026;49(4):540–541. doi:10.2337/dca25-0144
What My Continuous Glucose Monitor Can Never Capture
Why physiological data alone does not reflect adherence or clinical intent.
I Speak Jew
Language, code-switching and Anglo-Jewish Montréal.
Living with Two Time Bombs
Personal essay.
The Relentless Dance
ADHD and Type 1 diabetes.
October 2025
Makes Perfect Sense to Me
CHADD's national ADHD magazine.
Aliyah at Seventy
A continuing essay series under the name Menachem Elyah Paull. The earlier Times of Israel writing is on a second author page under Mark E. Paull.
Stories from the Spiral
New essays on Type 1 diabetes, ADHD, memory, grief, Jewish life and the dogs who keep turning up in the middle of all of it. Free, and sent when there is something worth sending.
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