Take On Life
A podcast companion to South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home - A memoir by F. K. Clementi, TAKE ON LIFE is that special space where imagination meets expatriation. Listen in to learn about the life experiences of many interesting people from all over the world. www.fkclementi.com Contact: takeonlifepodcast@yahoo.com https://amzn.to/3UXQUWN
Episodes
My first Slavic guest, Olga Ivashkevich, from Minsk, contributes her interesting and hyper-aware take on "whiteness" (and its tempting yet vicious shiftiness) in the Western world, our role here as "good troublemakers," and women's status in America compared to what she saw in the Soviet countries growing up.
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Michal Rubin joins me to talk about her identity, her fraught relationship with her homeland (Israel), and to read some of her poems. Brace yourselves! This is a painful one.
Music by
Yinon Muallem: Dark Side of the Oud
Mike Franklyn: Movin' with It
Valeria's Klezmer Chariot: A Terkisher in the Majestic Harbour; Der Bleter Vals
Roy Edwin Williams: Tenor Guitar Blues
Rune Dale: Scented Nectar
Ali Sabah: Khanabat
Luella Gren: ...
Music by
Stationary Sign: Walking the Tiger
Mike Franklyn: Scorpion Dance
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In this episode, I chat with Carolina Castillo, from Málaga, Spain. A Brooklyn-based talented artist, and mother of two amazing daughters, Carola reflects on how she is seen by her kids and by others in this new country. . . and learns, through gentle Karma, what her own mother must have gone through as an immigrant to Spain and, like herself, a mother with a strong foreign accent.
EPISODE #3 MUSIC:
The Secret Life of Pigeons –...
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In this episode, I read a short excerpt from my memoir and follow it up with a conversation with Andrea Malaguti, an old friend, a fellow expat, a grumpy genius.
Music in this episode:
Movin' With It - Mike Franklyn
Both Shoes Gone Walkin' - Moss Harman
Moonlight Mystery - Alexandra Woodward
Ain't misbehavin’ - by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., played by Andrea Malaguti
A Walk in Marai...
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In this episode, I serendipitously discover the title for the podcast that will be.
I also try to tell you something about myself but, I fear, I fail epically. You will however find out more about who I am, even if not quite "why" I am the way I am and, most of all, why I ended up where I am. For all that, you'll need to listen in to Take on Life.
The memoir I talk of in this short introduction is out, by the way! Rea...
Follow me on this journey of self-exposition, unflattering truths, unsustainable lies: in sum, my life in all its complexity, ugliness, and surprising wonderfulness.
"Take on Life" is a podcast companion to South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home -- A Memoir by F. K. Clementi
Music
“The Heart Knows” by Luella Gren
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