Lifestyle Duana Names: Does This Name Make Me Narcissa? Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my first. We’re not going to be finding out the baby's sex. While my partner and I agree on our boys’ names, I'm struggling with the idea that some of my top picks for girls will be too matchy-matchy By Duana • Apr 15, 2019 04:10 pm
TV Updates Yes and No – Season 2 Trailer of Big Little Lies There is nothing that makes me feel more ‘yes and no’ than the trailer for Season 2 of Big Little Lies. I specifically don’t mean ‘conflicted’, which at least to me means that you’re so full of all kinds of back and forth feelings that you can’t By Duana • Apr 15, 2019 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Anything/Everything Unisex? Dear Duana, Thanks for existing. I’m having my second child, a baby girl, in three weeks’ time (my due date got brought forward by a month! sorry about the short lead time). We’re struggling for names. Our first daughter is 6 years old and called Quinn. I love By Duana • Apr 12, 2019 05:18 pm
TV Updates Zendaya Angsts in Drake’s HBO Teen Series Trailer You know that idiom in fashion that says if you wore a trend the first time around, it’s not for you the second time? I mostly think that’s dumb, but watching the trailer for Euphoria, the new HBO teen series starring Zendaya from executive producer Drake, I started By Duana • Apr 12, 2019 11:04 am
Game of Thrones Duana’s Best Of Thrones: Mockingbird (For previous posts in our Best of Game of Thrones countdown, please visit the GoT main page here.) “I’m sorry it has to be this way.” “Why are you sorry? Because you’re an evil bastard with no heart? That’s what I liked about you in the first By Duana • Apr 11, 2019 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Emergency Intervention, Surname Edition Hello Duana, I'm writing to you out desperation as the naming of our only son has degenerated into a full-fledged crisis and huge argument with my partner. Enzo (we decided his first name) is our first baby. My boyfriend has 2 kids from a previous marriage carrying his By Duana • Apr 10, 2019 05:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Trying To Get On The Same Page – or ANY Page Hi Duana! I am pregnant with my second baby. This time around we found out that we are having a boy! I have only 3 weeks until my due date and we are literally stuck on a name. This whole name business has been the most stressful part of my By Duana • Apr 08, 2019 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Letter of the Law Hi Duana! I’m in a bit of a dilemma. So long story short, my first two children’s names start with an M – Marvin and Melissa. At the time of naming my daughter, I had thought I was done with having babies so the matchiness of the names were By Duana • Apr 05, 2019 03:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Care & Feeding of Nouns Hey Duana, Writing to you for again! The first time I wrote for advice back in 2015 about my mentor’s second child; today, I’m writing about my best friend. Her daughter’s name is Lane, which was a family name, and which suited my friend’s desire for By Duana • Apr 03, 2019 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cape Up, Name Nerds! Hi Duana! We just had a brand new baby boy! He was born last week on March 21st. He is absolutely beautiful and has a soft demeanour. Although, I don’t know many newborns that don’t at this age. He is the first grandson, first nephew and our first By Duana • Apr 01, 2019 04:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Back Off, Sussexes Hi Duana, I'm expecting my second child (gender to remain a mystery until arrival) the first week of April and am unreasonably panicked over our lack of boy names. We used our favourite (Forrest) the first time 'round and now I seem to hate everything, or whatever By Duana • Mar 29, 2019 04:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: That Damn Princess Bea Hi Duana, Our daughter is called Dorothy Wynn and we absolutely LOVE her name. We love it for many reasons. We love nicknames so we call her Dot or Dotty. Wynn harks back to my Welsh heritage and my partner’s Grandmothers were called Dorothy and Winifred. Mine were called By Duana • Mar 27, 2019 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Permission Slip – Check Yes or No Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first, probably only, child in April – a baby girl! His last name (and future baby’s) is a Filipino name pronounced E-bay-as. Lots of vowel sounds, which is challenging. We fell in love early and hard for the name Mayari. She’ By Duana • Mar 25, 2019 04:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Caitlin Doesn’t Equal Catherine Hi Duana! I'm a single mom by choice expecting my first baby in April, a girl! I spent hours devouring Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison and Montana as a teenager and making up long lists of names for my future children. The name I've wanted to By Duana • Mar 22, 2019 03:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Define – okay, no, SPELL ‘Synonymous’ Hi Duana, My partner and I are expecting our first child in a few weeks and, though we’re happy with where we’ve landed if baby turns out to be male, we’re at an impasse on the female side of things. We both LOVE Ursula but I’m By Duana • Mar 19, 2019 04:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Joyous, Slightly-Boastful Updates To all my delightful name nerds - it’s been a big week, and I have a feeling there are more weeks like this on their way... so I couldn’t help ending the week with a couple of updates, including arguably the most self-congratulatory one yet: an update to By Duana • Mar 15, 2019 04:41 pm
