Equality Issues Pitching Into The Abyss It started with one badass. Well. Many badasses. When Variety published their panelists for “A Night In The Writers Room”, there were 12 showrunners named – including 11 men. Names you know, like Judd Apatow and Michael Schur and David Shore. This was obviously bullsh-t, and was called out as such By Duana • Jun 15, 2018 01:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Too Much Spice? Hi Duana! My name is Sarah and there were always at least 1 other Sara(h) in my class growing up. I currently work with 8 other Sara(h)s. Because of this, I have always wanted an unconventional yet easy to pronounce and spell name. I recently heard the By Duana • Jun 14, 2018 04:26 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Best (Petty Sh-t) Is Yet To Come Hi Duana! I’ve been reading your column for years and we love the name of our first child, Lillian Stuckey. Lillian is getting a sibling! Little Person #2’s sex is unknown. I had names chosen for the eventual #2. They were the middle names of my husband’s By Duana • Jun 11, 2018 04:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights heads to the Big Screen in 2020 You don’t need me to tell you about how today feels, and you don’t need me to tell you that Twitter is frequently a terrible, dumpster of a place to be. But what you might not know, and what might help a little today, is the revelation that By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Dare Us To Do This? Hi Duana, After struggling for 5 years with infertility, and getting science involved, we had our daughter Marigold Delphine last year. For us, there was a lot to like and reasons of ‘right fit’ for choosing Marigold (one being a tradition in my family to do a derivative of Maria/ By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Here’s What It’s Not Hi Duana, You so very kindly responded to my last letter when we were having my son in December 2015 (so long ago – sorry!). We were deciding between Miles and Cameron on d-day and he came out with a head full of bright red hair and for some reason that By Duana • Jun 06, 2018 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can a Good Name be Bad? Hi Duana, Just wanted to say your kitten column really made me smile (on a crappy day!). Such cute photos, and Otto and Mabel were the names of my great-grandparents (mother's maternal grandparents) so to me they've always gone together. I love that someone else randomly By Duana • Jun 04, 2018 04:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rose By Any Other Name Hi Duana, I’m due in mid-June, and I’m having a baby boy. My daughter is named Delphine Rose. My husband and I are both born and raised Canadians. He’s of French and Italian heritage and I am 100% Peruvian. Our last name is B*****o. For a By Duana • Jun 01, 2018 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Have Deduced Your Clever Plan Hi Duana, I love your column and have been following it since the beginning. Thank you for all of your name inspiration! I’m struggling with naming baby #2 and am hoping you can guide me. I have one boy, Maurice, who is almost 2. We pronounce it the North By Duana • May 30, 2018 05:24 pm
TV Updates “Abhorrent” Roseanne got Roseanne Cancelled Mark the date down. Today is an anomaly in the entertainment business – or maybe in business overall. Today is the day that, when confronted with egregious behaviour on the part of one of its employees, Roseanne Barr, ABC did exactly the right thing. Mere hours after Roseanne tweeted something so By Duana • May 29, 2018 04:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: STOP NICKNAME TYRANNY! So as pointed out elsewhere on the site, it’s Memorial Day in the U.S. Little known fact – though Canadians had our holiday Monday, Victoria Day, a week earlier, Memorial Day can effectively mean a sort-of half-holiday here as well, because on some level people who are waiting for By Duana • May 28, 2018 03:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Spelling Hi Duana! I'm a product of the Whole Language movement, which means I cannot spell! Syntax, diction, even diagramming sentences is my jam, but I can't tell you the number of times I have screamed in frustration at a crossword puzzle, only to have my husband By Duana • May 25, 2018 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are We Out-Naming Ourselves? Hi Duana! I am pregnant with baby #2, due late spring. We are not finding out the sex. We are again stuck on a boy name after having no trouble picking our girl name. I wrote into you for guidance with this same problem the first go around. You helped By Duana • May 23, 2018 04:29 pm
Name Nerd The Joys of Dragging Miles Theodore Stephens’ Dad The problem with adoring a celebrity couple is not that you might go too easy on them. The problem is that you collect up all kinds of information, in kind of the same way you did about an eighth-grade crush, and can’t keep yourself from spitting it out at By Duana • May 21, 2018 01:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does Long Have To Mean ‘Difficult’? Hi Duana, How much should we take our last name into account when choosing names? My wife is due mid-June and we are trying to figure out how to best pair the baby's first name with our last name. When we married we decided to both hyphenate our By Duana • May 18, 2018 01:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing Compares To Him Hi Duana, I love your column and have been scanning it for months hoping for some inspiration. We are expecting our second baby on May 17th. The gender will be a surprise until the big day. Our first was a boy and we named him Ivan. I absolutely love it By Duana • May 16, 2018 02:57 pm
