Lifestyle Duana Names: To Pin Down The Twang Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first baby in early November and are hitting a bit of a wall on names. We were in agreement about baby girl names for the most part (Dorothy/Dotty as a front runner) and only found out the gender because we By Duana • Nov 02, 2016 04:49 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A New Name Dear Duana, My name is Laura and I am writing to you about a bit of a downer - still with joy and excitement in my heart, and a little off topic. Maybe a lot off topic. I don't need help naming a baby - I need help By Duana • Oct 31, 2016 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Necessity of Name Hacks Dear Duana, I wrote you a while back in a panic because after what felt like an exhaustive search over the course of a few months, we had zero names for our daughter arriving in November. I'm pleased to report, we finally have a list of names, albeit By Duana • Oct 28, 2016 04:49 pm
Cringe Tween Grossness, amplified in Interview You know how there are some words you forget how to spell, no matter how many times you use them? Despite being a consumer of all the publications, podcasts, and clickbait you can send my way, I forget constantly that Interview magazine is not just an interview with a celebrity, By Duana • Oct 26, 2016 10:47 am
TV Updates Road to Gilmore Girls: Trailer of Melancholy I love the way the fans are being treated with the Gilmore Girls revival. There is a treat every other week. It’s kind of ironic, because wild horses couldn’t drag these fans away. And this trailer delivers all the goods. Every face you wanted to see, right? There’ By Duana • Oct 25, 2016 01:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Simple Is Not So Simple Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child around Halloween and to everyone's surprise, it will be a boy! I love the combination of a simple first name with a unique middle name. Our daughter is Laura Solveig D----n (a nod to my husband's Norwegian background) By Duana • Oct 24, 2016 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Help Us Not F*ck This Up Baby number 4 is coming in a few short months... Totally unexpected. My husband and I had our first at the tender ages of 18 & 19, we named her Vaira. We love the name, she loves the name, and nothing anyone says will change that. But fast forward 10 By Duana • Oct 21, 2016 03:50 pm
Theatre Nerd Six Degrees of….Allison Janney? If there is anyone in the world who doesn’t love Allison Janney, I don’t know about it or they have been sent into deep, deep hiding. Everyone loves her—because she can do everything. Beloved prestige dramas? Of course. Gigantic Chuck Lorre sitcom that’s one of the By Duana • Oct 20, 2016 11:05 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Olivia, “Olivia”, and great baby names? You know those bots on Twitter that are basically jokes? Like @ProbsAFeminist retweets people who say “I’m not a feminist, but…”? I wonder if there’s one for platitudes? Because I hate platitudes, BUT, I always find myself thinking about that one about dishware: “If you don’t like By Duana • Oct 19, 2016 04:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Twice Right; And A Certain Avoidance Hi Duana, I’m expecting baby boy #2 at the end of October, and my husband and I are having trouble coming up with a name that we love as much as the one we gave our first son – Calvin James. James is a family name on my side, and By Duana • Oct 17, 2016 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Getting-Into-October Updates I know – not so long since the last one and I’m delighted too. I don’t know if summer people just have more daylight hours, so the updates come in sooner – no judgment, but we love getting them! Here’s the update for A Four-Letter Word: Hi there, Thank By Duana • Oct 14, 2016 04:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Even IS Our Style? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name help. We are (unexpectedly) expecting our third child this winter and are completely stumped on a name. We don't know the gender and have two sons already named Kadence (the K...I know, I know but I was young By Duana • Oct 12, 2016 04:43 pm
TV Updates Kathleen & Duana watch Insecure Kathleen and I have been talking about Insecure and Issa Rae since way before it had a name. We were both fans of Awkward Black Girl and despaired at the false starts of getting this woman on our TV screens. So anticipation was high, and like nerds, we pressed play By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 12:42 pm
TV Updates Factual Evidence to support Crucible Cast Party (I don’t remember the Sprite. What am I forgetting?) The most recent episode of SNL was always going to be a stacked deck for musical theatre, song-and-Broadway nerds. Elsewhere you can see host Lin-Manuel Miranda do his ‘I hope I nail SNL hosting’ rap to the tune of My By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 11:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Where Am I In The Mix? Hi Duana! I LOVE your column and your name nerd advice (and your name, to be honest). I also loved your book – how we feel about our names is such a study in human hope and behaviour, I can hardly believe that we went this long without the name nerd By Duana • Oct 07, 2016 04:39 pm
TV Updates Nothing Like the Real Thing, Gilmore-Wise There are times when you think of yourself as cool, and then there are times when you have to abandon the pretense that you ever were. Yesterday I stood in line in an empty mall waiting to get coffee from a fictional coffee shop in a tea shop (that used By Duana • Oct 06, 2016 02:44 pm
