Pamela reads her essay that she says is partially the eulogy she should have written/shared about her father and didn’t. She braids some sweet childhood memories with her last memories of her dad. In moving through her grief, she tells us: “The rough emotions have taken a back seat to the good ones.” And her message to her younger self is to “accept each step of it. You don’t know the steps. And however you’re feeling, it’s all okay.”

Pamela Gwyn Kripke is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Huffington Post, Slate and Salon. Her novel, At the Seams, received the Arch Street Press First Chapter Award, and her new short story collection, And Then You Apply Ice, was a Finalist in the 2024 American Fiction Awards. Pamela’s fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in numerous literary magazines. Born in Manhattan, she got married in New York, had baby girls in Boston, was divorced in Texas and currently lives outside Philadelphia. She self-published a memoir called Girl Without a Zipcode.

https://pamelagwynkripke.com/

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