Life is for the Living
Everyone has a story to tell, and in this podcast I sit down with a group of guests to learn about their childhoods, their marriages and children, the highs and low of their lives, and the stories that left them laughing or crying. And in so doing, show us a little bit of what it means to be human.Each season centers on a group of guests tied together with a common thread.
Season 1 focuses on 5 Quakers or ex-Quakers from the Las Cruces Friends Meeting, and I also ask them why they became Quakers, and if they left Quakerism, why.
In Season 2 I interview immigrants from around the world who all came to the New World to find a better life. I ask why they left, what immigration and integration was like for them, and what it means to be an immigrant.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
2.11 The Northern Lights
Are you afraid of death? What do you think happens after death? What is a good death? These are the questions I pose to our guests in this episode.
2.10 The Stuff of Life
**CONTENT WARNING** This episode contains discussion of suicide.
The things that make us happy and sad are explored in this episode, with our guests sharing happiest and saddest moments of their live…
2.9 Children
What we teach our children and what they teach us are the focus of this episodes, and we learn of the struggle of parents trying to keep the values of the old country alive, while their children abso…
2.8 A Marriage Story
Ghada tells the story of her 17 year marriage to her ex-husband and details all the fault lines that led to their divorce.
2.7 Love
What makes us fall in love with someone? What do we still find attractive about each other after years of marriage? Our guests open up about what brought them together with their spouses and what kee…
2.6 Makram and Hannah's Story
As the only guests to immigrate as adults, Makram and Hannah had a life time of experiences before their immigration, so in this episode they detail their lives prior to the Gulf War.
2.5 Home of the Free
Immigrants in America and Canada can face enormous hardships, so why to they stay? I ask our guest this question and find that despite their troubles, none of them regret coming here.
2.4 A Stranger in a Strange Land
Even when our guests made it too their new home country, they face the difficulty of fitting in. In this episode we explore the shock of immigration and the struggles of not being able to go back hom…
2.3 Through The Big Doors
In this episode we look at three ways people come into America and Canada: by boat and Ellis Island, by foot over the Rio Grande, and by convincing the American Embassy to give you a visa.
2.2 Home Is The Mouth Of A Shark
People rarely leave their homes and all they know behind them to start a new life in a new country without a very good reason. In this episode we learn what home was like for all of our guests and wh…
2.1 Meet The Immigrants
In our first episode of the second season, we introduce a brand new group of guests, all of whom left their homelands for a better life. Throughout the next 13 episodes, we will learn why they immigr…
1.8 Season 1 In Review
Producer Marco Burlo and I sit down for a chat about the show: what we learned from this season and what is coming in the next season. Also, an outtake real where you'll find how swearing goes into …
1.7 Advice
In the last episode of this season I ask our guests for advice: advice for surviving hard times, the best advice they ever got, and the advice they wish they had gotten.
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1.6 Stories
In this episode, our guests tell us stories from their lives. From a disastrous canoeing incident, an accidental marriage proposal, to a terrifying story about hitchhiking, we learn about the memora…
1.5 Emotions
What makes us sad? What makes us happy? These are the questions I pose to our guests in this episode. From losing at scrabble to losing your heart, from realizing your place in the world, to getting …
1.4 Quakerism
As all of our five guests are members, ex-members, or attenders of Quaker Meeting, I ask them what drew them to Quakerism, why the ex-members left, and their thoughts on spirituality and God in gener…
1.3 Love and Kids
In this episode we dive into what attracted our guests to their spouses, what keeps them interested, and what they taught to, and were taught by, their children.
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1.2 Childhood
From a sod house on a farm, to the streets of New York, we learn about the guests' childhood and their parents. This episode contain explicit language, descriptions of verbal abuse, and threats of su…
1.1 Meet the Quakers
Meet our five guests: Tim, Vickie, Marcia, Al, and Dave and learn how they describe themselves, their passions in life, and how they feel about getting older.
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1.0 An Introduction
An introduction to the Life is for the Living podcast and why we made it.
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