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
TV Updates ‘Encore’ Is My Kristen-Bell-Fueled DREAM Last week, I noticed Lainey said Do It On My Twin Bed was one of my favourite SNL sketches. The wording is important, because it was once my favourite, but can never get back there. That spot has been permanently supplanted by Crucible Cast Party: Crucible Cast Party (Kate McKinnon) By Duana • Nov 15, 2017 03:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oy Vey Re: Name OCD I've been reading your post for years, and I finally get to write about my very own pregnancy. My husband and I are expecting our first baby (second for him) the beginning of December, but there is a good chance we could have the baby mid-November. We have By Duana • Nov 13, 2017 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing Is As It Seems Hi Duana, Even before we got married, my husband and I talked about how if we ever had kids, and if it was a girl, we'd name her after my maternal grandmother - Loree (not Laurie. Lor-EE) This was so much the plan that when my sister had By Duana • Nov 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I’m Ross, Claudia’s Violin Teacher Hi Duana, We are due in mid-November and decided for the surprise (!) aka we don’t know the sex of the baby. This has been surprisingly difficult in 2017, as many people WANT to know the gender for gifting and I’m actually amazed at how ‘gender/sex-oriented’ clothes and By Duana • Nov 08, 2017 06:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Pairs Well With Marshmallows Hi Duana! Here's the situation. A few years ago my partner and I adopted a beautiful Maine Coon cat and naming her was a snap - the shelter had been calling her Marsha, so we shortened that to Mars in honor of one of our favorite heroines, Veronica By Duana • Nov 06, 2017 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing’s Off The Table Hello Duana, I am writing to you in desperation as we are very close to our due date (October 29) and we still haven't decided on a name for our little girl. She will be our first child unless you count our dog and cat (Cali and Maya) By Duana • Oct 27, 2017 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Long But Not. Popular But Not. Elspeth But Not. Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second daughter on October 25, and we are struggling to come up with a name. Our first daughter is called Dorothy - Thea for short. We would like a name that is longer, but can be shortened. We also don' By Duana • Oct 25, 2017 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JULIA IS 50! … and working! You guys, it can’t be an accident. It can’t be an accident that the opportunity to write about Julia Roberts twice in one day happens the same week as her birthday, on Saturday, when she will be 50. My headline is in reference to the Oprah interview that By Duana • Oct 24, 2017 03:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Well Here’s One I Haven’t Been In Before Hi Duana, I would love your help selecting the perfect name for our baby girl (Due October 2017). We know the middle name (Frances) and last name, obviously, which is W---t. This will be our first child and I am really hoping she is born with her dad's By Duana • Oct 24, 2017 11:13 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Embracing The ‘Ten’ In Pretentious Hi Duana, We are currently expecting our second child, a boy. Last name is a two syllable Irish name starting with D. Our first child is also a boy, and I love his name. It's unique, easily pronounceable and a family name: Livingston Christopher- We mostly call him By Duana • Oct 20, 2017 03:06 pm
