Non- Fiction
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If you immediately know the candlelight is fire…
It was the summer of 1995, I lived in Gdynia, Poland and was seven years old. This was a formative trip for me, a time where I began to see…
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What is Financial Derangement Syndrome?
I’ve been thinking about a pattern I keep seeing in modern organisations and across our society: the assumption that everything can be quantified as a financial calculation. I call it…
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Top 10 Restaurants to order Uber Eats from in Perth (2026 edition)
This is not a sponsored article, I’m just sharing my love of good food and hoping to give everyone a heads up about the best places to go. It’s been…
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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 3: Telling Stories)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Continued on from Part 2: Run, Survive, Repeat So we packed things…
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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 2: Run, Survive, Repeat)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Continued on from Part 1: End of Childhood When morning came, I…
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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 1: End of Childhood)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Wise people say it takes time to fall in love, but that…
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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Final Impact: Reclaiming my story a decade later
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, workplace trauma, drug use and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. 2015 was a year of immense pain and suffering for me. For years I…
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10 Ways to Spot Narcissists (So You Can Avoid Them)
I’ve had a lot of problems in my life. Coming from a traumatic childhood, I trusted the wrong people again and again. That’s something a lot of trauma survivors deal…
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The Birds and the Diamond Mountain
We love to mythologise the rich and powerful, especially the further away they are from us in the pages of history. But it’s important to separate the fact from the…