Lifestyle Duana Names: The Gift Came Early! Though it’s not an exact science, as I’ve mentioned, I try to answer name questions before the due dates of the arrivals, if that’s practical. But sometimes things get more complicated than that. Here’s an email I got in August: Hi Duana, We are expecting our By Duana • Dec 22, 2017 01:30 pm
Name Nerd Mindy Kaling’s Daughter Katherine You know how there’s a word for all kinds of things in German that English doesn’t have a reference for? What’s the word for ‘I kind of got played and I think I like it’? Please advise. Okay, ‘played’ is too strong a word, probably. But the By Duana • Dec 20, 2017 12:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Have To Hold Back The Title Hi Duana, I am expecting our second child and while I had every intention to get feedback with the first, he made his debut a month early and I was still fully in denial I was to become a mother. He went nameless for 2 days in the hospital however By Duana • Dec 18, 2017 04:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Will We Ever Find Love Again? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name advice for our second baby girl, due in December! I'm Indian, and my husband is American, and while I'd like a name that works in both contexts, I think it's more important that we just By Duana • Dec 15, 2017 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Kitchen Sink Names Duana, I have forever been infatuated with names, I love how much they say with so little. I have kept a list of names for years - not necessarily for potential children, but simply because I appreciate them. Now, faced with naming an actual human I'm coming up By Duana • Dec 12, 2017 03:59 pm
Kristen Bell Golden Globes TV Noms – Not Boring This is when being ‘contrary’ gets you into trouble. For the record, I don’t think I choose the alternate perspective all the time, but some people, like 90% of the staff of this blog, seem to think I do, and usually I can mount a rousing defense. Today though, By Duana • Dec 11, 2017 01:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Schroedinger’s Name Hi Duana, My husband and I are pregnant with our first child and CANNOT agree on a name. More specifically, we cannot agree on a boy's name. (We aren't finding out the baby's sex.) He's convinced me of his choice for a By Duana • Dec 08, 2017 04:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Letter Writing Win, Name Jury Out Hey Duana! So here we go - shouldn't be too long. I'm due w/ my second in early December (now) - it's a girl, we have a boy at home. His name is Mirko (middle name Augustus - family name), last name is a By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 05:03 pm
TV Updates Mae, Christina & Retta are Good Girls I only lasted 18 seconds. I watched the trailer for Good Girls, which premieres on NBC next February, and liked it almost instantly – but I only lasted 18 seconds before I punched the space bar to pause in some kind of rage-endorsement, and wrote the following in an email to By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 01:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is It Too Close? Can It Be Too Close? N.B. – The letter writer points out that the content may be upsetting, proceed with caution. Dear Duana, This is a heavy baby name question, and I imagine it could be quite painful to some of your readers. Five years ago I had a daughter who died shortly after birth By Duana • Dec 01, 2017 03:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Maximum Capacity Name Hi Duana, We are expecting our first baby, and while we have had our boy name picked out for a while, we have come to an agreement if we happen to have a girl. We really like the name Max for a girl not Maxine or any other version but By Duana • Nov 29, 2017 04:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Choose ALL The Names! Hello Duana, I've been reading Lainey Gossip for years and have been a fan of your name blog for quite some time. I'm a lawyer and love your SJC name test. Anyway, after a long process, my husband and I were recently approved to adopt a By Duana • Nov 24, 2017 02:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Five ALIVE* Hi Duana, Despite no kids of my own on the horizon, I've been inundated with babies over the last year. All three of my siblings have been on the exact same life schedule-- get married, have babies. All three families were expecting at the same time, and there& By Duana • Nov 22, 2017 04:48 pm
Dumbass Lena Dunham Cold Take I scrolled Twitter endlessly this weekend, after the first part of the Lena Dunham story broke – that is, when Dunham and her partner Jenni Konner released a statement in The Hollywood Reporter, defending Girls writer and producer Murray Miller against rape allegations by then-17-year-old actress Aurora Perrineau, and referring to By Duana • Nov 21, 2017 08:49 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Sunny, chance of honour names… Dear Duana, I have been reading your column a long time out of interest, and I can't believe it is finally my turn to write in! My husband and I are expecting our first baby in early December, and for years we have been talking about names... mostly By Duana • Nov 17, 2017 03:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Round the World To Feel At Home Hi Duana! I'm so excited to be writing you this email. One of my closest friends is pregnant after a long journey to get here, and she's having a little girl a few weeks after I do too! She's having a really hard time By Duana • Nov 15, 2017 05:15 pm
