I was looking for a topic for this column last week when it occurred to me that I had been staring it in the face, in the news and in the Facebook feed that, like for many, my days begin and end with.

Books by Black LGBTQ+ Authors To Explore This Pride Month In honor of Pride Month 2025, we've some of our favorite books by Black LGBTQ+ authors By Angela Johnson Published June 2, 2025 ...

Every May, we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and that means it’s the perfect time to read new titles by AAPI authors. Though this year’s AAPI month comes amid the ...

Having kept her suggestions for a number of years, the title of the book “Dstadning: The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning,” by Margareta Magnusson, wasn’t the most appealing at first, but having read it ...

Margareta Magnusson, author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Scribner, 2018), advises classifying items into categories — books, clothes, furniture, linens — and starting with the ...

Swedish death cleaning is about keeping what matters most and getting rid of the rest — before it’s too late and loved ones must do it for you.

Books for the class are “Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?” by Richard Leider and David Shapiro and “The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly” by Margareta Magnusson.

This was first introduced by Margareta Magnusson in her book The Gentle Art Of Swedish Death Cleaning. It sounds a bit morbid, but the intention is an important one.

Local author to present book on dementia at Desert Hot Springs Library Author Series Kathleen Bjork will speak about her memoir, "My Mother is Losing Her Memory and I Am Losing My Mind," on March ...

If you want to celebrate Black History Month by reading newly released Black authors, these recommendations span sci-fi to romance to memoir.

HOW: Elderly artist Margareta Magnusson – who claims to be somewhere between 80 and 100 – wrote the definitive guide to this method and it’s a practice she has adopted for herself several ...