Lifestyle Duana Names: You Only Know If You Know Hi Duana, We're English and I am currently pregnant with my second daughter and we can't find anything we LOVE. My first daughter is Lara (middle name Emilia) and we adore it. I still get a little thrill every time I tell people her name. It& By Duana • Mar 29, 2017 04:48 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Buffy, EW, and the Gift of Time The cast of Buffy is reunited in an Entertainment Weekly spread for the show’s 20th anniversary. Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz are on the cover, and if you squint, it’s not so far from the shots of them back in the day, right? When they appeared everywhere By Duana • Mar 29, 2017 04:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Benedict Cumberbatch’s Swaggy Second Son Looking back on my post about Benedict Cumberbatch’s first son, maybe the passage of time has mellowed me or maybe tastes have changed, but while Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch may be a little vanilla, it’s nothing to laugh at, it’s a fine name. Similarly, I didn’t understand By Duana • Mar 27, 2017 03:32 pm
Child Stars Millie Bobby Brown: Exhausted & ‘Mature’ So. So. Look, I am a big fan of advocating for people to take credit for their work, but there’s some stuff you don’t want to be right about, and this Millie Bobby Brown article from October is everything to do with why. When the story about her By Duana • Mar 27, 2017 01:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates In Multiples, Spring 2017 Well, here’s the thing about updates—sometimes I don’t have any for a while, and then I have some all at once… and I always value that some come in days after the baby’s born, and others are rounding the corner on becoming toddlers. That’s great, By Duana • Mar 24, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: So Shall It Be Done Hi Duana, On the Netflix show The 100, the main character's name is Clark and she is a woman. I love that name for a girl. Is 'Clark' becoming a trend for girls? Has this come up on the 'Duana Names'? Also, what about By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 04:19 pm
Amazingness Mean Girls: The Musical - For Nerds, By Nerds I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tina Fey is a choir nerd. It’s most clear to me from intense readings of Bossypants - she mentions that she was in audition-only choirs and it was a big deal, in a way that is clearly joking-but-not-joking. By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 12:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: His Arabic Name So, Lainey and Sasha answer this question today on the Sasha Answers podcast. Their answers were thoughtful and heartfelt, of course, but they asked me to weigh in specifically from a name point of view. It was an honour to try to help. I need some advice regarding my son. By Duana • Mar 21, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates This Is Only Some Of Us On Friday, I opened Messenger, texted Kathleen, and proceeded to ruin her day. I’ve been thinking about This Is Us all week and I’m not the only one —their Saturday night panel at PaleyFest was packed. The show is ridiculously successful in a time when both network shows By Duana • Mar 20, 2017 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Defying Categorization and 80s Soaps Hi Duana! I’m currently expecting baby #2 (due late April) and we are not finding out the sex. My husband and I truly love our daughter’s name – Ruby Kyoko. I know Ruby isn’t your favourite – too ‘pinteresty’ I think you said (haha!) but I just love it. By Duana • Mar 17, 2017 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: BIT OF A LONG ONE Hi Duana, I got married last month and hubby and I already have the appointment set for our IVF cycle next month – I am not getting any younger, you know... I am the anxious/planner one in the family, and then he makes the comment “I can’t wait for By Duana • Mar 15, 2017 05:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rules! Made to be Broken? Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in March and we are waiting to find out the sex. We are happy with a slew of girl names *(Margaret, Josephine, Penelope) but we are stuck on a boy’s name. WE want a name that “fits” with our first son’ By Duana • Mar 13, 2017 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Nerd Seeks Same Hi Duana! I’ve always been a name nerd as well, it’s so nice to read about a kindred spirit! Like you, I loved reading baby name books when I was younger. Kathleen sounds like a common name but I was always the only one and there were NEVER By Duana • Mar 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Course Correction Hi Duana, We are due this summer, so not for a while, but I feel like this baby naming thing is a big task and the more time we give it, the better. I come from a family of really good names. I have a strong 3-syllable name (Kennedy) that By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 05:11 pm
Equality Issues Maria nominates: Duana’s Ghostbusters crew In August 2015, almost a year before the all-female Ghostbusters was released, Duana wrote about an Instagram photo posted by Melissa McCarthy of the crew - all the women with their job titles specifically noted. Today Maria is nominating this post to revisit, on International Women’s Day, as we By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 04:07 pm
Equality Issues Joanna nominates: Duana on Allison Williams In Joanna’s words: I nominate Duana’s The No-Podcast Would-Be Episode of Show Your Work. I’ve been an avid listener of the podcast since it launched (remember “Working Class”?), but aside from the Dwayne Johnson-Anna Kendrick-shut down Jimmy Fallon mega episode from November, my favourite edition has to By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 03:35 pm
