Lifestyle Duana Names: Having It Easy Makes It Hard Dear Duana, When I was pregnant with our first child, we locked in on Teddy (Theodore) for a name almost instantly. That made life easy, but it made me a little sad since I wasn't able to write in and ask for your advice. The universe worked its By Duana • May 31, 2017 04:41 pm
Music Jagged Little Pill, The Musical. So I try to stay away from clichés, mostly because they’re hacky, but also because I don’t find them super useful. Usually they don’t articulate much about the situation – unless they’re super insightful, and then they do, but make me seem like a hypocrite. All this By Duana • May 30, 2017 04:47 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Tackling The Laundry List Dear Duana, We are happily expecting our second girl in May, after a long journey to get here. Now we need to name her. I have a three year old named Leoni Elli (middle name after her grandmothers), who gave herself the nickname "Neenee" when she was 12 By Duana • May 29, 2017 04:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: You Would Cry Too If It Happened To You My husband and I have a 3 month old baby. We kept the baby's name a secret until he was born, and we named him William James (first and middle name). We loved both names and went back and forth on which would be the first and second, By Duana • May 26, 2017 03:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get Your Mind Out Of The TV! Dear Duana, I need help, please and thanks! After being adamant that we weren’t going to have children – for years and years - at the age of 38, we realized that soon the decision wouldn’t be ours anymore so we decided to stop trying not to have a By Duana • May 24, 2017 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: “BABY GIRL” Must Not Stand! Dear Duana, Now to the matter at hand, we are in desperate need for a name! Our third child was born on May 14th, the names on our shortlist do not fit her and now we're sleep deprived and have no clue how to even to start a By Duana • May 19, 2017 04:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: OMG. No, wait – well, maybe. OMG? Hi Duana, I am in a real conundrum. We thought we were having a boy originally and had a name picked out no problem. My name pick for a girl was Margot Mabel with the last name L----c. Unfortunately.... my partner’s name is Marko which was pointed out to By Duana • May 17, 2017 05:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Dub By Any Other Name Hi Duana, My boyfriend showed me this article this morning and I immediately thought of you. It’s a hilarious name-nerd writeup disguised as sports writing, about the WHL draft and the names of the players, born in the early 2000's for the most part. And his commentary By Duana • May 15, 2017 04:16 pm
TV Updates “RENT” Live on Fox Alert, Oregon Trail Generation*, this is not a drill. Fox has announced that RENT will be its next live musical (along with A Christmas Story, which I like, but… never thought of as a musical?). Take a second with that. Call back every angst-filled lyric you memorized and practiced and By Duana • May 15, 2017 02:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Solutions for the 2am Search Hi Duana, I know you generally answer letters when delivery dates are close by and I'm not even pregnant yet but this name interrogation is keeping me up at night (my husband thinks I'm crazy and he might be right...) We're going for baby By Duana • May 12, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Secret Agent Baby-O Hi Duana, I'm due at the end of May but I have no idea what to name our baby if baby turns out to be a boy. This baby will be number 3 and likely our last. I already have a boy, age 3.5 (Theo, Theodore on By Duana • May 10, 2017 04:51 pm
Amazingness Nicki Minaj, Achievement Boosts, and ‘Whataboutism’ Around 4 PM yesterday I opened Twitter for the first time. And saw this tweet: Uh, Nicki Minaj is offering to pay tuition for dozens of her followers on Twitter right now, as long as they have good grades. pic.twitter.com/dVdnGsGj8C— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) May 7, 2017 By Duana • May 08, 2017 09:52 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: When You Can Go Anywhere…Go Where? Hi Duana, After a long period of losing hope, it was a big surprise to know that we are finally expecting our first baby in May 2017. I am lao/vietnamese background and my husband is german/ukrainian/hungarian/lebanese background. It will be one really mixed kid! We believe By Duana • May 05, 2017 03:23 pm
MET Gala 2017 Halle Berry: MET Worst Dressed 2017 (Duana) I had to think about this one. I knew Halle Berry was right at the bottom of the list, but it took me a minute to figure out why. You probably got there before me, right? This look is, on its own, not bad. It’s not avant-garde or on-theme, By Duana • May 02, 2017 01:53 pm
Style Solange: MET Best Dressed 2017 (Duana) Well. I mean, of course it’s not surprising that Solange is Best Dressed. In fact, she’s been using the MET Gala as her personal runway for years—a place where she is, in a different way than Rihanna, expected to reign. But man, I didn’t know it By Duana • May 02, 2017 01:17 pm
MET Gala 2017 CELINE DION: Best MET Rookie Lainey and Lorella and I talk about Celine a fair bit. Mostly we talk about Celine and Rene. How bananas it all was. How much she loved him. She grieved more than anyone will ever grieve. She mourned! Wearing black lace! It’s like an opera taking place in real By Duana • May 02, 2017 12:44 pm
