av LYS editorial team | 2019, maj, fre | close to elsewhere, Make Sweden your Home
The French word for weather, le temps, also means time. Weathering, unlike seasons, records years as linear. It imitates life; it is one-directional and with a definite closure. Storms and days of blasting sunshine form the landmarks that help us navigate our personal...
av LYS editorial team | 2017, jul, sön | Make Sweden your Home
If you were not familiar with the Swedes’ attitude to their summer holidays already, you might start to notice that the country is more or less shut down by mid July. The cities are full only of tourists, and a handful of bitter professionals who are still going to...
av LYS editorial team | 2017, apr, lör | Make Sweden your Home
Age is catching up with me. Every morning, my contact lenses present to me not my own eyes, but my mother’s. I frown at this classical reminder of destiny’s imperfection. A cliché without meaning, outsmarted only by my father’s handwriting, haunting me at work, on my...
av LYS editorial team | 2015, jul, mån | Make Sweden your Home
Many of us dream of a Swedish sommarstuga, and early half the Swedish population have access to one, whether this means owning it, renting it, or sharing it with family or friends. What is remarkable about these statistics is not so much this number, although it is...
