When we are looking at at white supremacist comment on our new YouTube channel about our journey as an interracial couple, Darlene says
“It’s because these people even exist that we persist.”
When faced with a tough situation and you need to make a decision, but it’s potentially painful, Darlene says,
“My view is go ahead and have the baby — no epidural — endure the pain, get the baby out and then start the process of recovery.”
When I say that Darlene played me a song as a litmus test to see if we’d get along when when got together, and I modify the story and say, “Maybe the song was played pre-get-together,” Darlene says of that particular song,
Darlene’s defines literacy for her recent piece on literacy as a work of social justice as,
‘Literacy is interpreting shapes to create meaning. It is allowing ourselves to wonder and question distorted images.”
Darlene, musing on useful phrases in the English language, says
“I appreciate the phrase ‘running errands’ or ‘I have an errand to run.’ It saves you from sharing your business, like ‘excuse me, Ihave to go pay my light bill.’
Darlene tried and tried to open a bottle of water and, frustrated, handed it to me. I told her it was already opened, and Darlene says,
“Oh, I was successful, but I didn’t know it. Which means I was not successful.”
In the car, I asked Darlene how she thought our marriage could improve, she said,
“If you drove better, our marriage would be a 10 on a scale of 1–10.”
When planning how to title our upcoming vlog episodes, Darlene says,
“I don’t want to be click bait.”
Darlene reflects on her conversational vocabulary,
“They got me sounding completely American, saying ‘epic’ and ‘awesome.’
Darlene was asked to read at a local community arts event supporting literacy and the piece she wrote for the event opens,
“I am the American I did not read about in my elementary history book.”
