Lifestyle Duana Names: What’s This But Not This? Hi Duana, I'm expecting my second soon (the third week of July!), and am at a loss for names. Our first is named Beverly, which we're delighted with - not only because it honours a grandmother that I was close with, but because it seems to By Duana • Jul 27, 2018 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cultural Can-We-Do-That? Help! Since I was little I’ve always known my daughter’s name would be Katherine but we all call her Kate. My name is a Polish variation of Katie but I’m not at all Polish (long story! Eye roll), which is Kasia. I loved the sentiment of it By Duana • Jul 25, 2018 04:47 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Dreams May Come Hi Duana, fellow name nerd here. I am two weeks away from baby boy #2 (Duana: Actually less now, this email came in a few days ago) and I’m having doubts about our chosen name, which hubs and I deemed “perfect” since the beginning of the pregnancy. His name By Duana • Jul 23, 2018 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lin-Manuel Miranda has resurrected Movie Musicals “The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. It is not a musical cue. It is not a joke. It is the sound of one man's mounting anxiety. I... am that man.” Okay, you’d have to be under a rock not to know Lin-Manuel Miranda’ By Duana • Jul 20, 2018 02:03 pm
Kenan Thompson Emmy Noms 2018 Controversial opinion ahead: It is bullsh-t that sketch comedy shows get their own category, but then sketch performers are lumped into the Supporting Actor/Actress in a Comedy category. Not that I begrudge anyone the nominations, let’s get that out of the way, but Leslie Jones and Aidy Bryant By Duana • Jul 12, 2018 02:59 pm
Name Nerd Cardi B’s Baby Kulture Kiari I love it. It wasn’t instant. I had to sit with it for a second, think about it, and then decide. But I love it. I’ll get to the obvious Offset connections in a second, but first … You know that thing where certain names are so singular they By Duana • Jul 12, 2018 08:47 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: DAY-OF DILEMMAS Dear Duana, Our second child is due TODAY [N.B. Actually, the letter writer sent this yesterday!] and is still nameless! Our problems are these: 1) We absolutely knocked it out of the park when naming our daughter, Astrid, and we haven't come close to feeling the same By Duana • Jul 11, 2018 04:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Husband Of Infinity Forever Hi Duana, First of all, you must sprinkle some kind of visual crack into your articles cuz I swear my wife is addicted. What started off as occasional and passing “Duana says...” statements have now ballooned into full blown links and screen shots that are clogging up my phone memory. By Duana • Jul 09, 2018 05:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Working out the Kinks Dear Duana, Help! The clock is ticking and I need your expertise! I am currently 32 weeks pregnant with my FOURTH boy (all of my babies have come before 36 weeks so I’m entering the home stretch). My husband and I are really struggling with a name this time- By Duana • Jul 06, 2018 04:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Hello From The Other Side Hi Duana! Or, 'Hello again'? I'm writing to you for baby #2, after writing you a very convoluted letter for baby #1 in 2016. I just reread it for the first time since receiving your response...boy were we confused. But alas, our little Joshua Montgomery By Duana • Jul 04, 2018 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Comes After Mae…? Hi (again) Duana, My daughter Mae turns 5 in July and we're expecting a second girl. We named her after my grandmothers, Mamie Jean and Dorine Margaret but if I'm honest, I just liked the name. It's simple and classic, familiar but not popular By Duana • Jun 29, 2018 03:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Think We Want It To Be Lit Hi Duana, I wrote you once before thinking I was having a boy, but we had a surprise girl! Now I'm (almost certainly) definitely having a boy (due in July), and our name choices are all over the map! My daughter is named Djuna which I love and By Duana • Jun 27, 2018 05:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Start-of-Summer Updates I am delighted that it is finally summer and that I can become uncomfortably sweaty by working outside… and also quite cognizant that I am already fighting off freefall despair about the fact that the days actually start getting shorter (in the Northern Hemisphere) from here. So to counteract that By Duana • Jun 25, 2018 05:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is It Even Really There? Duana, First off, I LOVE your name posts and happily devour them when I see a new one up. And, I read and loved The Name Therapist when I was pregnant with my first daughter. You’ve been a guiding light in our search for names! Thank you! So....I By Duana • Jun 22, 2018 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Final Installment Oh wise Duana! I am hoping you may be able to steer me in the right direction as you did once before… We have a Hazel Louise (4), decided with your help on a Delilah May (2) and now are expecting our final installment, a boy in approximately 5 weeks. By Duana • Jun 21, 2018 04:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: It Isn’t Rhyme Time Hi Duana, Help! We’re expecting baby boy #2 on June 24th, so we have about 4 weeks left to choose a name and I’m starting to panic! Our first son, Owen Russell, just turned three and has been affectionately calling his brother Bug and/or Bowen (a name By Duana • Jun 18, 2018 03:05 pm
