There is nothing secret about the scent of the coffee shop and I inhale deeply as I breach the doorway. It is rich and delicious and the smell makes my taste buds perk up in anticipation. My taste buds aren’t the only thing alive with anticipation though. My mind is wild to hear about this… Continue reading Secret life fit into a week – If we were having coffee
Love this! Any thoughts or favourites of your own? Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody… Continue reading Classic Secret Life
Somewhere far beyond the boundaries of human knowledge exists the guardian. It is a force so controlled from within itself it can never be damaged. It has a power so strong it can never be captured. With it, it carries a passion so deep that you’ll never find the bottom. And for a small few… Continue reading The Guardian
The Penis Chronicles presents “My Secret Life as a…” I came into parenting expecting my role would be to be a mother, plain and simple. However, being a mother is not plain or simple and it isn’t a fixed role. I think one of the most amusing roles that I have had to assume is… Continue reading My Secret Life as a…
I had years of practice with holding a public face or at least a public family face. For years I maintained the façade of a woman married to a loving partner. It was painful to see my family embrace him in warm hugs and enjoying his company while I harbored the dark secret of routine… Continue reading In the Shadows
By Shari Marshall – 2019
If I asked you to live a secret life what would you say? For me, that question will haunt me till the day my secret life kills me. I can still see the young naïve me sitting in that roadside diner booth staring doe-eyed at the intimidating figure in front of me. I remember whispering… Continue reading Secret Life or No Secret Life
The coffee mug on the table before me is a simple pattern of horizontal coloured lines. I study the lines as they vary in width and colour noting that perhaps the pattern isn’t as simple as I thought. The colours on the mug are black, yellow, green, red and white but they don’t repeat that… Continue reading Coffee Post
As I have been working through my secret life theme this month the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” popped into my mind a number of times. This movie came out in 2005. It stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or John and Jane Smith. Basically they presented as a dull married couple but they both… Continue reading Living Secret Lives
Surreptitious existence marked by cryptic messages. By Shari Marshall -2019
Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils 