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  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Leta Shy

    Many people think of applying lotion as the duty-bound, slightly unpleasant step in their bedtime or morning routine—if they incorporate it at all. The overabundance of mediocre moisturizers could be the culprit: Perhaps it’s a cheap, watery formula that imparts only a suggestion of hydration, or a heavily perfumed, overpriced cream that has underwhelmed you before. But as dermatologists advise, everyone should use a body moisturizer every day to maintain optimal skin health.

  • Nov 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Leta Shy

    I’m decidedly not an audiophile; instead, I’m closer to what my 7-going-on-17-year-old daughter might describe as an audio bore. I’m happy with almost any speaker, content to blast the same four albums—always reluctant to stray from my favorites—on the nearest paired device. I can never remember the name of a song or the artist who sings it, and when it’s time to switch things up, I usually just rely on the surprisingly good Spotify algorithm to make me a playlist.

  • Nov 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Leta Shy

    Some time ago, deep in the eerie quiet of 2020, my partner, daughter, and I moved from our creaky Brooklyn apartment to a Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles, my hometown. But while my body was physically in place, enjoying the 300 days of sunshine and waking up to swaying palm trees, my mind took a bit longer to arrive.

  • Sep 9, 2024 | lamag.com | Leta Shy

    Natasha Rothwell’s first therapy session more than 20 years ago planted the seed for the creator, executive producer and star’s new show How to Die Alone, out on Hulu on Friday, Sept. 13. “It was sort of hand in hand with my personal self-help journey,” Rothwell tells Los Angeles. “The process of putting myself out there and allowing myself to be seen and accepting myself in terms of body image and not caring what people think — these were all things that I was going through.

  • Sep 9, 2024 | yahoo.com | Leta Shy

    Leta ShySeptember 9, 2024 at 1:30 PM·4 min readNatasha Rothwell’s first therapy session more than 20 years ago planted the seed for the creator, executive producer and star’s new show How to Die Alone, out on Hulu on Friday, Sept. 13. “It was sort of hand in hand with my personal self-help journey,” Rothwell tells Los Angeles.