Lifestyle Duana Names: Ready Player 3 Evening Duana! (Not yet, sweet Letter Writer, but soon…) My dearest friend put me on to you one night when I was complaining on the phone to her about naming baby #3. Our little boy, who will have brother Griffin and sister Adair, is due in just a couple months. By Duana • Oct 10, 2018 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama Duana, My husband and I will soon welcome our second child, and if this baby turns out to be a boy, he is currently nameless! Our older child is Lorenzo and his name is a nod to my husband's Italian heritage, and my maiden name, which begins with By Duana • Oct 05, 2018 04:27 pm
Lifestyle Duana Name: Siblings - No Place For Rhyme Time Duana, My friends are having their second daughter in October and are stuck on a name. Their first daughter is Hayden Olivia, which they settled on quickly and early. The two front runners right now are Caroline and Paige, but neither makes them as excited as Hayden did. Other names By Duana • Oct 03, 2018 03:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Already Got It Right... Hey Duana, So I’m pregnant with my first child and I don’t know the sex. I’m basically set on a girl’s name, but my partner and I are having a hard time choosing a boy’s name. Help! He loves the name Wallace, and I love By Duana • Oct 01, 2018 03:42 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 Tatiana Maslany w/ Special Guest Star Tiffany Haddish: Emmy Best Dressed (Duana) I liked quite a few outfits last night. Kristen Bell might have had a personal best, I loved what was happening on Sandra Oh, I enjoyed Regina King and the aforementioned Samira Wiley – but when I mentioned a fifth name on top of all those, Lainey told me to f-ck By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 12:37 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 KERI RUSSELL ROBBED, Matthew Rhys Cute The Americans won for best writing in a Drama Series, and my Twitter exploded like it was my birthday and my wedding day both. We got excited, because awards so rarely go the way they’re supposed to, and The Americans won for the best finale of the best season By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 11:22 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Bill Hader, One Emmy Like everyone else in the world, I have a lot of shows I need to watch, and a lot of shows I wish other people would watch so we could talk about them. But even though I nag Lainey and Kathleen and anyone else who will listen about every show By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 09:28 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Dunst and Landry Emmy Night There are three reasons to write this post. I have struggled with the order of them, but I am very certain there are exactly three. They are all based on the below photo below, and they are as follows: 1. These two as a couple. Yes, ‘still’ Look at them. By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 07:27 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Handmaids Cuteness at Emmys Maybe the key to this year is that the real awesomeness happened at the Creative Arts Emmys 10 days ago. Because Kenan Thompson won an Emmy, finally, and the shot of him kissing it is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen, and then Samira Wiley also won, for guest By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 06:47 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Rachel Brosnahan and the Top Hat Surgeon The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Have you watched it? Probably. Did you like it? I’m gonna wager that you did, for reasons I’ll get to in a minute. Were you happy with all the wins? Yeah I didn’t think so either. What is that? Look, the show is By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 05:34 am
Emmy Awards 2018 How Angela Bassett Emmys August 16, 1958. That’s her birthday. She turned SIXTY. Angela Bassett is six decades old. She is the same age as Madonna. She is the sleekest, most stylish woman at these awards and nothing as petty as a live television show, or mispronouncing a name, or even genuine joy By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 03:38 am
Emmy Awards 2018 That’s How You Open the Emmys? Credit where credit is due – the way the nominees, then presenters, then winners were announced was so inexplicable and utterly confusing that it probably made people pay a lot more attention. To the point where, when Kate McKinnon and Kenan “Holy Sh*t He Looks Good” Thompson came out, people By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 01:17 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Help, Question Mark? Hello Duana, Help? My partner and I are expecting twins (a boy and a girl) and cannot agree on a name. He is Israeli and has conventional taste. I am South African and want a name that will stand out from a crowd. We plan to raise our children in By Duana • Sep 14, 2018 05:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Natural Acts of Names, And a Dire Warning Hi Duana, My daughter was born in 2009. Her name is the same as a popular exclusive dating app. When I picked her name, it was a relatively unknown but not too exotic name. Now I'm afraid people will know her name from the dating app first. Should By Duana • Sep 12, 2018 06:18 pm
Douchebags Olivia Munn, alone at TIFF A few weeks ago, before The Predator was to make its international debut at TIFF, Olivia Munn discovered that Steven Wilder Streigel, an actor she shared a scene with, was a registered sex offender. That phrase should stand on its own, but if you need more, he pleaded guilty to By Duana • Sep 10, 2018 03:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Too Weird A Thing? Dear Duana, (just so you know, my auto correct turned your name to Diana) I just finished reading your book and loved every bit of it. As a name geek and fellow owner of a confusing Irish name, so much of it resonated with me. As a side note, I By Duana • Sep 07, 2018 04:22 pm
