Lifestyle Duana Names: On Food and Monikers I have to admit, before these articles started being posted, I never gave much thought to how sibling names flowed and complimented each other or in some cases, clashed. Now that we're pregnant again, I feel the need to request some help. My husband and I have 8 By Duana • Jun 13, 2013 01:32 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Gotham Baby Names OK...so here's the deal - we are due in one week and expecting our first child (a boy!). My husband and I are going back and forth between three first name options. I truly am hoping it 'comes to us' once we see his little By Duana • Jun 11, 2013 12:58 pm
Mad Men “I Don’t Want His Juice, I Want My Juice” Mad Men Season 6 Episode 11 recap Everyone wants what someone else has. What’s wrong with us? Why can’t we be satisfied with who we are? Why can’t we see ourselves as others do? It would save so much trouble if we could just be who we By Duana • Jun 10, 2013 01:10 pm
Game of Thrones End Of The Beginning Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 10 recap It was, wasn’t it? That’s what it felt like. All the stories we’ve been told up to this point have been aiming at people who needed to get somewhere – all the different spokes of the story that needed to By Duana • Jun 10, 2013 09:17 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Sullivan’s Siblings Hello! It’s actually fairly early on in my pregnancy (don’t tell Lainey, I feel like she wouldn’t approve and would worry I’m jinxing it, judging by how we couldn’t talk about Baby Wales for a while), but I’ve been so sick this time around By Duana • Jun 07, 2013 10:32 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Do You Think Of Evyn? Hi! I'm about to pop and I desperately need your advice. What do you think of Evyn (Evan, Evin, Evynn?) for a girl? Thanks!!! ____ Well, about to pop means you get to jump the line, and in view of an article about “Everly” today, I thought this letter By Duana • Jun 04, 2013 12:53 pm
Name Nerd Everly Tatum It’s my own fault, you know. I’m the one who’s always on about unusual names and how we shouldn’t just go to the same well over and over again. And to that end, it is worth noting that we’re not writing about Channing Tatum’s By Duana • Jun 04, 2013 10:12 am
Mad Men Nothing Is Impossible In California Mad Men Season 6 Episode 10 recap I could have sworn Don called Megan “honey” during their conversation while they each watched the riots on TV. It’s impossible, of course. He doesn’t show that kind of affection to his three-year-old, let alone his wife. But am I so By Duana • Jun 03, 2013 01:50 pm
Game of Thrones King’s Landing’s Night Off Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 9 recap This is the title that won; I ran several past my husband because he thought my original title seemed callous. I don’t want to be callous. I am writing this moments after the end of the episode and yes, of course By Duana • Jun 03, 2013 09:45 am
Book Review Someday, Someday Maybe – A Novel Each summer has historically been a wasteland for Parenthood fans who juuuust got off the anxiousness of wondering whether their show has returned. But this year, there was Monica Potter being delightfully real in yesterday’s Hollywood Reporter Roundtable (click here for a refresher), plus the promise or the actual By Duana • May 31, 2013 01:35 pm
Books Someday, Someday Maybe – A Novel Each summer has historically been a wasteland for Parenthood fans who juuuust got off the anxiousness of wondering whether their show has returned. But this year, there was Monica Potter being delightfully real in yesterday’s Hollywood Reporter Roundtable (click here for a refresher), plus the promise or the actual By Duana • May 31, 2013 01:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Such A Thing As Too Much Irish? Hi Duana. I'm 5 months pregnant with my second son. Our first is named Declan. (You can imagine how excited I was when it came up in your column as a possible recommendation!) I agree with you on the Irish boys name front. They are cool but, if By Duana • May 30, 2013 02:02 pm
Girlcrushes A Love Letter To My Favourites* *Kerry Washington is my favourite of all the favourites It’s not a “gossip gift” per se, but this potential drama nominees roundtable is the best gift I could have gotten. It’s delicious. I know all these women, I watch all their shows – it feels strangely indulgent to have By Duana • May 30, 2013 10:58 am
Parent Pimps Will and Jaden like patterns (Last night I emailed Duana about the Will & Jaden Smith Vulture interview. I heard from her an hour later: OH MY GOD. Like I'm not even through it and I only woke up because Libby barked and I checked email on phone and could not even get By Duana • May 29, 2013 11:25 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: My Best Friend’s Moniker Hey Duana, I have a question about naming kids after friends. Is this an awkward thing? Like if you idolize a particular friend or role model or something, and name your kid after her or him, do you think it's too big of a gesture, or might make By Duana • May 28, 2013 01:34 pm
Mad Men Focus On The Family Mad Men Season 6 Episode 9 recap No matter how elegant and grown up you consider yourself to be, it is a long-understood truth of adulthood that you will revert to being thirteen as soon as you get back to within striking distance of your family. This could be dismissed By Duana • May 27, 2013 12:33 pm
