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Pamela Gwyn Kripke

Pamela Gwyn Kripke

New Book!

If you’ve enjoyed my essays here on Medium, I’m hoping you’ll pretty-please consider buying my upcoming short story collection, And Then…

2 min readMar 29, 2024

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New Book!

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Human Parts

How the Heart Works

What my old dog taught me about love

7 min readFeb 15, 2024

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Pamela Gwyn Kripke

Yarn Over

Like Special Ops paratroopers, my brother and I descended on Century Village at Boca Raton to lift our mother out, rescued, we believed…

7 min readJan 30, 2024

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Pamela Gwyn Kripke

Upstairs Neighbor

He wasn’t a dreadful singer, not shrieky or terribly off-pitch. He kept a tune. He was enthusiastic. Had it not been 5:17 in the morning…

7 min readJun 25, 2023

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Upstairs Neighbor

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Heart Affairs

Big Things Come in Big Packages

On my birthday five years ago, a box the size of Idaho arrived on my front porch. For nearly a decade before, I was accustomed to…

7 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Big Things Come in Big Packages

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The Strength For Love

When my mother hit her mid-70s, some of her friends began to move into retirement homes, a shift that she observed with consternation and…

8 min readJul 8, 2020

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Pamela Gwyn Kripke

Pamela Gwyn Kripke

Journalist, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Slate, Elle; Author, At the Seams (novel), And Then You Apply Ice (story collection), literary magazines

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