Name Nerd Duana Names: Good News – You’re Behind! Hi Duana, I am due with a second child in June. It is a girl, and we already have our Rose who will be two when the second is born. Rose was easy for us to name, and we chose Mae Lynn as her middle name(s), one of which By Duana • Jun 19, 2019 03:51 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Perfection Plus One Duana: Our unicorn babe Penelope is getting a sibling in late June and we need name help. If it's a boy, we will name him either Nicholas or Sebastian, middle name Howard (family name). The girl names are proving to be a bit more problematic. I was trying By Duana • Jun 17, 2019 04:02 pm
Theatre Nerd The TONYs Are Better TV Than The Oscars. I Said It. Confession: I missed the beginning of the show live, including host James Corden’s over 10-minute opening number, and saw it after I’d watched the rest of the show. I didn’t think that would shift the fabric of my whole viewing experience, but I saw more than By Duana • Jun 10, 2019 11:26 am
Name Nerd Duana Names: When He’s Stuck In A Junior-High Haze… Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child at the end of June and just can’t find a name that clicks for us. Our first is Benjamin. This time around we are having a girl. I gravitate towards grandma and/or Irish names, my husband adores anything from the By Duana • Jun 05, 2019 04:25 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Lost That Loving Feeling Hi Duana, My daughter's name is Adelaide Vance which I love. We had Adelaide picked out as a girl's name for years (Addie for short) and Vance is a middle name in my family given to first born girls. Now I'm pregnant with a By Duana • Jun 03, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Is It Evil? And…Is that Bad? Hi Duana! We’re expecting our third kid in June. We already have a boy and girl and I swear we have already vetoed every dang name there is! We don’t want something super popular because my husband has a very common 80’s boy name and hated using By Duana • May 31, 2019 04:10 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Secrets Of His Success Hi Duana, My friend Hafida is having a baby boy at the end of May, and is a bit stuck for names. The baby's big sister is Sophia. His father is Samir, and the family's background is Moroccan origin, but they live in the Netherlands. My By Duana • May 29, 2019 04:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Astounded / Euphoric / Blunt / True Dear Duana - LONG time reader, first time writer. Potential meltdown haver. Love your taste, and your advice would be a HUGE help. I live in the middle of conservative America, but I am part of a liberal-yuppie-hint-of-hipster-crew. I hate that I just wrote that, but By Duana • May 27, 2019 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Push Because I Love Hi Duana, We are expecting our second daughter in a few weeks and haven’t yet settled on a name. For our first daughter, her name came super easily. We both had really liked the name Serena and it was the natural choice - we hadn’t really thought of any By Duana • May 24, 2019 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Riverdale Writer Michael Grassi Takes Us To School He’s a real-live showrunner! This week’s Show Your Work is a special pleasure for both of us; for me, because our guest, Michael Grassi, is not just a writer and co-executive producer on Riverdale AND the showrunner of the upcoming CW show Katy Keene, also based By Duana • May 23, 2019 12:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Love? Hey Duana! We are expecting late spring this year, and don’t know what gender the baby will be. The longer I sit on names, the less they seem to appeal to me... we do want names that would be easily said in English or French. Ages ago, we came By Duana • May 17, 2019 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Update Fire Sale! I’ve amassed quite a few name updates and I don’t want to always wait for a busy day or relevant reason to deploy them, so let’s just assume today is all of those things, and get right to them! Here’s the update to ‘Permission Slip – Check By Duana • May 15, 2019 04:20 pm
TV Updates Beverly Hills, 90210 trailer birthday! Oh you beautiful dolls! First reaction – pure, giddy tween joy. Second reaction – am I being an uncritical stan? See for yourself: Maybe we should talk about the art of trailers on Show Your Work, because they can be very good or very bad, but when they’re good, they’re By Duana • May 14, 2019 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Chew On This Dear Duana, A very good friend of mine is due to give birth to baby #3 next week. She massively struggles with names (this is the text she sent me earlier today: "Why is naming a human soooo difficult???"), but she and her partner did an exceptional job By Duana • May 13, 2019 04:20 pm
Equality Issues “You Know Me”: Busy Philipps Speaks Out This is the opening of Tuesday night’s episode of Busy Tonight. The relevant part begins at the 39 second mark: The clip stands on its own, obviously. You don’t need me to explain why it’s so powerful, especially because it’s not new news – Busy wrote about By Duana • May 10, 2019 04:23 pm
TV Updates Tori Spelling… Gets It? If you’re like me, you still can’t quite believe the 90210 reboot – or revival, or mockumentary, or whatever you want to call it – is happening. It seems like the kind of thing that people would drunkenly pitch over drinks and then realize, when they were sober, could never By Duana • May 09, 2019 01:04 pm
