Lifestyle Duana Names: How To Nick A Name Hi Duana, Unlike most people who ask for your help, we have already named our baby girl. She is almost one year old. But Houston, we still have a problem. Our last name is a three syllable Italian name so I wanted a first and middle name that felt light/ By Duana • Jul 10, 2017 04:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When Trendy Does Not Equal Popular Hi Duana, I would love your help please! My husband and I are having our second boy, due in July. We have a name all picked out, but I'm worried that it's becoming trendy or will be seen as a trendy choice. This is compounded by By Duana • Jul 07, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Moving to Higher Name Ground Hello! I am due mid-July and the gender is a surprise. I've been scouring your columns for inspiration and reassurance - and I have found some, but we are on somewhat shaky ground when it comes to a boy's name. I also want to have a By Duana • Jul 05, 2017 03:46 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Jay Z’s would-be empire and why we love trucks And we’re back! Since so many of us had a holiday weekend, it feels good to dig into work talk… even though this week, the talk seemed kind of work-adjacent: In Jay-Z’s case this is because lots of people haven’t yet heard 4:44, since it’s By Duana • Jul 05, 2017 02:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cultural Inheritance? Or Inherited Significance? Hi Duana, I'm due with my first at the end of June. We just found out we're having a boy, and of course we only had a (perfect!) girl's name picked out. For background, my husband is Belgian and I am American. I am By Duana • Jun 30, 2017 04:09 pm
Music K’Naan, Riz Ahmed in Immigrants video Well, this was opportune. Earlier today Lainey asked whether politics belongs in gossip—I would say it’s impossible to talk about pop culture, anyway, without it. Sometimes these days we will talk about possible topics for Show Your Work and note that there’s been so much real-life news By Duana • Jun 28, 2017 04:21 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda #Ham4All Is Somehow For All Last night I was talking with some women who had loved Leonardo DiCaprio. They appreciate him now, but when they were young, they loved him. Loved-loved. That undying teenage passion. They were fans. Now, of course, they’re more like *fans, because they’re older and wiser. But it’s By Duana • Jun 28, 2017 03:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Let’s Talk Best Practices for Stealth Middle Names Hi Duana, I would appreciate your thoughts on a new name ‘challenge’ that I haven’t seen addressed here before. Baby boy is arriving at the end of the Summer. It is tradition on my hubby’s side to name the son after his father. This is a tradition that By Duana • Jun 26, 2017 03:42 pm
TV Updates Alexis Bledel returns to The Handmaid’s Tale I had several emotions in a row when I read this headline today, telling us Alexis Bledel will be a series regular in Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale. My first thought was, yeah, no sh*t, she was great. Of course they should up her to series regular. By Duana • Jun 22, 2017 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Emergent Arrival! Dear Duana Sadly The Name Therapist is not published here in Australia so I needed to be way more organised than I was when it came to ordering a copy! Perhaps my current dilemma - a nameless 10-day-old daughter - is karma for not having done so! Our new baby By Duana • Jun 19, 2017 03:25 pm
TV Updates Key & Cobie are “Friends From College” You know what’s still low-key enough not to be a thing? Being obsessed with Keegan-Michael Key. Of course you love Key and Peele, and Jordan Peele is doing his own world-domination thing—but Key has this other thing. He’s trying to be liked, and not always good at By Duana • Jun 15, 2017 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Dignified, Chunky & Tiny Hi Duana My partner and I are adopting a puppy - he is a black Labrador Retriever, and expected to be a chunky guy, given his lineage. To tell you a little about ourselves - we live in England, met in Cambridge, and we have 14 year old a dog By Duana • Jun 14, 2017 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Trouble With Good Names Hi Duana, My 3rd baby (a boy) is due in a couple of weeks towards the end of June and I didn't want to miss my chance to write in. #1 (Graham) and #2 (Harriet) are napping and I thought aha! Now I will sit and write to By Duana • Jun 12, 2017 05:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Arguably The Best Baby Name Update Ever… You guys, I love all of the updates. I want to know about them five minutes or five years after you name the baby, regardless of where you come down on things I recommended or shouted about or whatever. But to date, this may be the most… is it exciting? By Duana • Jun 09, 2017 03:45 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Clooney Twins Ella & Alexander One thing is certain. Whatever I thought the Clooney twins might be called, and whatever names might have caused a stir in my social media and yours (remember yesterday morning, when Reality Winner was the biggest name in the headlines?), I never, never expected this much digital ink to be By Duana • Jun 07, 2017 12:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Close Enough To Call Hey Duana, I'm pregnant with our second child, a rainbow after a really bad loss last year, and am due at the end of June. We have a 3-yr-old named Elijah (Eli) and came about his name accidentally as a suggestion from a friend. My husband loved it By Duana • Jun 05, 2017 04:47 pm
