Lifestyle Duana Names: Strength, Style, in that order Hi Duana, I love your column and your writing. Hoping for the grace of your wisdom here.. My second child, a baby girl, is arriving in May. We have a taste for what we see as stylish, euro, slightly mid-east-influenced names. Naming our son was super easy - but I& By Duana • May 01, 2017 05:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Should It Be This Difficult? Hi Duana! We're expecting our second in May and we won't be finding out the gender. Though somehow we're in the same boat as when we were expecting our first- a full list of potential girls names and zero for boys. Last time we By Duana • Apr 28, 2017 02:13 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Why Lainey Cares* About Leslie Odom Jr. We’ve debated and gone back and forth, but I think the verdict is we are going to delay the taping of our #ShowYourWork podcast until after the weekend. Because the Met Gala is coming, and because Lainey and I are going to be in New York this weekend, and By Duana • Apr 27, 2017 02:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rethinking, Second thoughts, and ‘Second’ thoughts Hello Duana, My daughter was born last year and we were one of those couples that didn't want know the gender. We had the boy's name set but we waffled on girls names. Adelaine? Sorcha (he vetoed)? Aurelia? Ariel? We finally settled on one...Claudia. But By Duana • Apr 26, 2017 05:28 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Blake Lively ‘Popping’, Anne Hathaway ‘Confessing’, Harry Styles Flirting, Badass Moms and Bad Idea Vacations...and Julia! Every week we pledge to pare down our list of topics and inevitably squeeze in one more… or maybe two. This week was the hardest yet because it was ALL good… Because when we discuss Blake Lively shutting down a reporter who asked what Blake felt was an inappropriate question By Duana • Apr 24, 2017 03:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Name Defies Description… Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child in May, and I am convinced that we will never agree on a name. We are planning to be surprised by the gender, so we actually need to have both a boy’s name and a girl’s name By Duana • Apr 21, 2017 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: START. YOUR. ENGINES… DUANA we need help. My husband and I have been married for almost 5 years and currently have zero kids. My 30th birthday is in August 2017 (he will be 29) and we are looking towards that as a soft opening date for the baby-making-factory (TMI?). At this point, we By Duana • Apr 19, 2017 05:19 pm
TV Updates ….CARMEN SANDIEGO!? Is there a word for the kind of family legend that only half the family enjoys telling? In our house, it’s my parent’s legendary consequence bombs. They were the MASTERS of follow-through, no leniency allowed. Case in point, when I lost the house key they gave me in By Duana • Apr 19, 2017 12:14 pm
Girls Adventurous Women You know what’s amazing about Girls, on top of everything else? They stuck unwaveringly to their format for six seasons. There was, I think a ‘To Be Continued’, but mostly, even with ‘One Man’s Trash’ or ‘American Bitch’ they told the stories they had to tell in their By Duana • Apr 18, 2017 12:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Plus Two Equals New Ball Game So we have just found out we are having twin boys but we are having trouble coming up with name options! I have rules already from our first son: our surname is Brown so no one syllable names and no names starting with B, but now I need to find By Duana • Apr 12, 2017 02:56 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Bradley Cooper & Irina Shayk have a baby name I like saying “Irina Shayk”. You do too, right? I assume so, and that’s part of why she’s famous? I mean, I know, she’s a model and she’s been with him for almost two years and all, but let’s be honest, this is a fun By Duana • Apr 11, 2017 02:13 pm
TV Updates Big Little Lies returns? The other day, in a big group of people, someone said no, they hadn’t watched Big Little Lies yet, and then commented, “It’s not about how cool you are for the shows you watch anymore, it’s curating listing the shows you don’t have time to watch, By Duana • Apr 11, 2017 01:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oprah, Uma, Ari, Eli Hi Duana, We just found out that we are having a second boy and we have no idea what to name him! Our first son's name is Ariel Nikolas P----r. We pronounce Ariel the way Sebastian from the Little Mermaid does and we call him Ari for short. By Duana • Apr 10, 2017 03:51 pm
TV Updates Smash, Scorned showrunners, and ‘Yes, And’ When I first read the Theresa Rebeck's essay about being fired from Smash that Entertainment Weekly ran, I was standing in a long lineup and immediately looked up, shocked that the line was still happening. Like, I somehow expected everyone else around me to have read it at By Duana • Apr 05, 2017 01:24 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bye Bye Birdie?* I am a longtime fan of your name column. I actually have a naming question about my two year old daughter's name, or, rather, her nickname. Should we at some point transition her to her real name? If so, when? As background: we have three wonderful daughters, Charlotte, By Duana • Apr 03, 2017 03:22 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: 5 year old ideas, 10 year old realizations Hi Duana, I'm excited to be writing to you! My husband and I are expecting our first, a girl due in early April. We've had boys names picked out for a while. His top pick was Lincoln, to be called Link and mine was Archer. We By Duana • Mar 31, 2017 04:13 pm
