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: The Heart Knows

Vendla: Verano

Medite: The Secret Life of Pigeons

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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 – Medite

Animal – Suffer City

Barcelona – Rune Dale

Augusto Caliente – Los Principes del Flamenco

Movin’ with It – Mike Franklyn

Verano – Vendla

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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 Marais - The Fly Guy Five

Verano - Vandla

The Secret Life of Pigeons - Medite

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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! Read it, if you are too curious to find out more faster than I release podcast episodes. 

Thanks for being there with me.

Moonlight Mystery – Alexandra Woodward

And There You Go – Stationary Sign

Bar Mitzvah in Haifa – Joe E. Lee

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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" 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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