Author

Mark Tulin

@mftulin

articles: 37
total claps: 33,369
top claps: 2,121
avg read: 2.3 min
paywalled: 37
active: 2022-07-30 → 2026-07-23

Wiki topics

✍️ · Writing & Creative · 31 LIT · Literature & Writing · 26 😂 · Humor & Satire · 14 💭 · Philosophy of Spirit · 4 🧘 · Spirituality · 4 🧠 · Mental Wellness · 3 MM · Multimodal & Generative Media · 3 🏛️ · Politics · 3

Top tags

#poetry ·18 #humor ·12 #mark-tulin ·12 #satire ·6 #flash-fiction ·4 #writing-prompt-response ·3 #politics ·3 #essay ·3 #tulin ·3 #my-fair-lighthouse ·3

MDA HUM AI LIF

MA Mark Tulin · The Junction

My Girlfriend’s Black Cat

And the cat whisperer

Aug 28, 2022 · 3 min read · 2,121 claps paywalled #fiction #humor #cats

MDA

MA Mark Tulin

Farewell, Wally Cleaver

And thanks for being my imperfect older brother

Jul 30, 2022 · 3 min read · 1,991 claps paywalled #humor #leave-it-to-beaver #brothers

SPR MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Microcosm

Her Private Oblivion

My ex was an accident waiting to happen

May 10, 2026 · 3 min read · 1,495 claps paywalled #flash-fiction #writing-prompt-response #fault-line

HUM AI LIF MDA

MA Mark Tulin

A Quatrain of Romantic Whispers

Poem in a shirt pocket

Feb 15, 2026 · 1 min read · 1,418 claps paywalled #poetry #love-poems #yearning

LIF HUM MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Hope, Healing, and Humour

Through a Renoir Window

A dress that made my morning coffee more interesting

Jul 23, 2024 · 2 min read · 1,350 claps paywalled #poetry #humour #dresses

SPT HUM MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Drawn to Be Funny

My English Teacher Was a Word Whacker

Who fantasized about a threesome with Funk and Wagnalls

Jul 13, 2023 · 2 min read · 1,241 claps paywalled #humor #satire #grammar

HUM SPR MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Zen Poetry

The Zen of Windmills

Transforming the wind in the desert mist

May 24, 2026 · 1 min read · 1,157 claps paywalled #poetry #energy #zen-poetry

SPT MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Weeds & Wildflowers

The Ever-Changing World of Muir Woods

Nature’s regeneration in Northern California

Jul 03, 2024 · 1 min read · 1,156 claps paywalled #prose-poetry #nature #muir-woods

HUM ECO SOC MDA

MA Mark Tulin

Should We Give the Richest Man in the World a Break?

Buying Teslas or saving democracy

Jan 25, 2026 · 3 min read · 1,085 claps paywalled #politics #essay #democracy

Should We Give the Richest Man in the World a Break?

MDA HUM

MA Mark Tulin

Please, Don’t Step On Her Foot

The red and raw reality of Grandma’s gout

Jan 31, 2026 · 2 min read · 996 claps paywalled #humor #health #memoir

HUM MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Scrittura

Stripped Down Yet Evocative

My English teacher and William Carlos Williams

May 27, 2025 · 1 min read · 989 claps paywalled #poetry #william-carlos-williams #english-teacher

MDA LIF HUM

MA Mark Tulin · My Fair Lighthouse

Sundays Are For Conflict

A weekly art of miscommunication

May 18, 2026 · 3 min read · 978 claps paywalled #nonfiction #pier-21-prompts #family-dysfunction

HUM SPR MDA

MA Mark Tulin

Riding with Kafka and Camus

A lonely pilgrimage in search of meaning

May 31, 2026 · 1 min read · 960 claps paywalled #poetry #existentialism #meaning

HUM LIF MDA

MA Mark Tulin · The Lark

A Philadelphia Rooftop Garden

Where tears make flowers bloom

Jun 07, 2026 · 1 min read · 941 claps paywalled #dedication #the-lark #poetry

MED AI SPR

MA Mark Tulin · The Honest Perspective

Her Last Bike Ride

A busy intersection where speed and negligence kill

Apr 09, 2026 · 3 min read · 900 claps paywalled #life #tragic-stories #driving-safely

MDA LIF

MA Mark Tulin · Drawn to Be Funny

The Five Lousy Types of Therapists

For the male patient whose wife gives him an ultimatum

Jun 19, 2023 · 4 min read · 888 claps paywalled #humor #therapy #marital-problems

HUM ART SOC MDA

MA Mark Tulin

The Stuff of Homelessness

It takes a resourceful person and a stacked shopping cart to survive on the street

Jan 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 863 claps paywalled #essay #photography #homelessness

HUM MDA

MA Mark Tulin · My Fair Lighthouse

Sylvia in Army Fatigues

Killing time at the mall in 1985

Jun 10, 2026 · 2 min read · 862 claps paywalled #poetry #pier-21-writing-prompt #crime

MDA HUM SOC

MA Mark Tulin

Stars, Stripes, and Slavery

Elizabeth Griscom Ross's American flag doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean

Mar 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 850 claps paywalled #politics #american-history #essay

MED MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Drawn to Be Funny

The Man With The Troublesome Hemorrhoid

I’m taking the hemorrhoid commercial way too far

Aug 17, 2023 · 3 min read · 830 claps paywalled #humor #doctor-office #hemorrhoids

HUM MED MDA

MA Mark Tulin · Lit Up

On Suicide Watch

A psychiatric aide working in a sanctuary of despair

May 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 821 claps paywalled #poetry #mental-health #despair

SCI MDA HUM

MA Mark Tulin

Farewell, Sweet Follower

A cyberspace Dear John letter

Nov 06, 2025 · 1 min read · 817 claps paywalled #humor #satire #medium

LIF MDA HUM SPR

MA Mark Tulin

The Pope of Pottsville

A life of death and inebriation

Oct 30, 2025 · 2 min read · 807 claps paywalled #poetry #humor #family

MDA HUM SOC

MA Mark Tulin

Happy Monarchy Day

250 years, and we’re back where we started

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 800 claps paywalled #poetry #satire #fourth-of-july

HUM MDA

MA Mark Tulin

The Hand of Miriam

Do the five fingers with a flowering eye protect us?

Feb 14, 2024 · 2 min read · 748 claps paywalled #poetry #superstition #hamsa