The image is iconic: women in long skirts and wide-brimmed hats marching with banners, chained to railings, smashing windows, or staging hunger strikes. They were called the Suffragettes — and for much of the early twentieth century, they fought not only for the right to vote but for recognition as citizens, as individuals, as equals.Continue reading “The Suffragettes: Votes for Women, Voices for the Future”
Author Archives: My World of Interiors
Chapter 3: The Fifth Horsewoman of the Apocalypse
I find the boy looking downcast outside the main building. “What’s wrong?” I ask, hurrying over to console him with a hug. He’s stiff as a board and trembling, so I squeeze him tighter.Leaning back to face him, I ask, “what’s the matter?” “Don’t worry about it.” He hangs his head in shame. I passContinue reading “Chapter 3: The Fifth Horsewoman of the Apocalypse “
Surrealism: The Logic of Dreams
Few movements in 20th-century art captured the imagination as forcefully, or as lastingly, as Surrealism. Emerging in the 1920s from the embers of Dada and the disillusionment of World War I, Surrealism sought not only to revolutionize art but to liberate human consciousness itself. It was not a style, but an attitude — a wayContinue reading “Surrealism: The Logic of Dreams”
Chapter 2: Welcome To My World
We’ve started hanging out after school, the boy and I, on the down-low. Apparently, we’re at the age where boys and girls become a danger to each other, according to society. But at my house, we can see each other semi-secretly as much as we like. No one needs to know, apart from his parentsContinue reading “Chapter 2: Welcome To My World”
The Silent Era: Cinema Before Words
Before the world spoke in sync with film, it dreamed in silence. The silent movie era — stretching from the late 1890s through the late 1920s — was a time when cinema evolved from novelty to art form, from flickering short reels in nickelodeons to sprawling epics projected in ornate picture palaces. It was anContinue reading “The Silent Era: Cinema Before Words”
Chapter 1: My Little Friend
It’s the first day at my new school and I am bursting with excitement.Due to the sudden rush to find me a place, Grandpa George’s Girl Friday, who is actually an old and highly efficient lady called Bonnie, has enrolled me in a local state school in Memphis, not the sort of place I’m accustomedContinue reading “Chapter 1: My Little Friend “
Life Magazine: America in Pictures
For much of the twentieth century, Life magazine was not just a publication — it was a window through which Americans saw the world, and the world saw America. From 1936, when publisher Henry Luce reimagined the title as a weekly news magazine told primarily through photographs, until its decline as a mass-market force inContinue reading “Life Magazine: America in Pictures”
GREAT ARE THE MYTHS – Prologue
What follows is my novel GREAT ARE THE MYTHS serialised over the summer of 2026.
Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Sicily
Sicily is an island of layers: Greek temples, Norman cathedrals, Baroque palaces, and volcanic landscapes. While Palermo’s grandeur and Taormina’s glamour attract international crowds, the island’s real charm often lies in its agriturismi and family-run guesthouses. Rooted in food, history, and landscape, these stays prove that Sicilian hospitality doesn’t need to be expensive to feelContinue reading “Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Sicily”
The Human Condition According to Valerie Solanas
By Bergotte Valerie Solanas is the writer this series was not supposed to include. She is not canonical. She is not comfortable. She wrote one major text, the SCUM Manifesto, which calls for the elimination of men, and she shot Andy Warhol in 1968, and she died alone in a welfare hotel in San FranciscoContinue reading “The Human Condition According to Valerie Solanas”
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