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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" Conversations about stories where imagination meets expatriation.
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
In this Ur-episode (the first I recorded when the idea of a audio program struck me many months ago), I serendipitously discover the title for the podcast that will be.
I also try to tell you something about myself and 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! Read it, if you are too curious to find out more faster than I release podcast episodes.
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 and grumpy genius.
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.
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Michal joins me to talk about her identity, her fraught relationship with her motherland fatherland, and to read some of her poems. Brace yourselves! This is a painful one.
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