TV Updates JonBenet Ramsey gets the Cold Case treatment I’m reading a whodunit right now where, halfway through, we’re beginning to turn our eyes on the sweetest, most innocent one. It’s early enough that I know that’s not the end result—or at least, I hope not. But I also feel like it’s too By Duana • Aug 18, 2016 12:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names:….And Called It Macaroni Hi Duana, My sister, Dominika, is one week over her due date and totally dunzo. She and my BIL, Paul, still don’t know the gender and have no names at all! They have "writer's block" when it comes to names and have begged for your By Duana • Aug 17, 2016 04:04 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One for you, One for me Hi Duana, I've re-read every name post you've ever written hoping a name (the name) would magically jump out at me. We are expecting baby #3 in early August and are stuck on a boy's name. There is a good chance the baby is By Duana • Aug 15, 2016 03:15 pm
TV Updates The Affair Expands in Season 3 We’d probably be hearing a lot more from the TCAs – the Television Critics Association – if the Olympics weren’t on. But how can you focus on a show that’s coming back in a month or three when there are people javelin-ing and trampoline-ing in colours of spandex we By Duana • Aug 12, 2016 03:35 pm
Will Simone Happen? (Name Nerd Olympic/Twitter Edition) Late last night or early this morning, I got a couple of tweets, (from Mindi and Frannie, respectively) asking me a very astute question and also providing a welcome respite from the ongoing ‘Delphi’ debate. Both wanted to know, after the incredible stories of gold By Duana • Aug 12, 2016 02:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Family Name Dynamics Hi Duana! I'm due to have my first child in early January. My husband and I have decided not to find out the sex, so we have been tossing around boy and girl names. We're in good shape for boy names, but the girl names have By Duana • Aug 10, 2016 03:17 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green’s 3rd Son Were you, like me, still under the misapprehension that these two were getting divorced? In fact, they’ve just had a baby…not that those are mutually exclusive, of course. You can have a baby and a divorce, although sometimes one is used to stop another, in both directions. Not By Duana • Aug 10, 2016 12:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Everything is Ennui Dear Duana, I have a sweet yet spunky daughter named Flora. I get that some people find the name choice strange (bacteria! margarine!), but overwhelmingly, the reaction has been positive. It helps that we live close to Italy! The name struck a chord with me because I'm a By Duana • Aug 08, 2016 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Can One Letter Matter So Much? Hi Duana My husband and I are expecting our first child at the end of August. She will be the first grandchild on both sides of the family and after struggling with infertility issues everyone is very excited that she is finally on her way! I have been dreaming about By Duana • Aug 05, 2016 03:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When Calls The Bard Hey Duana, I hope this email finds you well. My husband and I need a bit of help naming our 2nd baby girl coming along this August. My big problem at the moment is that I kind of have an earworm of a name rattling around in my head that By Duana • Aug 03, 2016 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get In The Ring Hi Duana, I know your focus has pretty much exclusively been human names (real life babies and characters) - but would you consider helping out with horse names? It’s been 21 years since I last owned one, but yesterday I bought a new horse. He’s got an interesting By Duana • Jul 29, 2016 03:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: But if it’s NOT a boy, though… Hi Duana, Long time reader, first time emailer here. I've been writing this email in my head for so long I hope I can cover everything now that I'm actually sitting down to write it! I'm pregnant with our third, due in August. We By Duana • Jul 28, 2016 04:41 pm
TV Updates Lorelai and Rory Return November 25th “I like knowing things” So do I, Rory Gilmore. I like knowing what I’ll be doing on November 25th, the day after American Thanksgiving, when the four ‘seasons’ of Gilmore Girls drop on Netflix. I like knowing that, though Lorelai’s kitchen table is intact, and still cluttered enough By Duana • Jul 27, 2016 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is it OK to love Trainspotting? The summer Trainspotting came out, we were obsessed with it. It was hot all the time and we were allowed a little more freedom than we had been before. We were using most of it to go downtown, to see and buy and consume things that weren’t available at By Duana • Jul 25, 2016 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Fair Amount Of ‘Huh’ Hey Duana! Well, we have a tri-cultural doozy on our hands. My husband and I are both originally from the Balkans, I grew up in Canada, he in Sweden. And Sweden is where we live now. We have a son already, and are expecting a baby girl in July. We By Duana • Jul 25, 2016 02:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can Perfect Strike Twice? Hi Duana, My sister-in-law and brother are getting closer to their due date but are no closer to deciding on a name. Daughter #2 arrives this July, and although they're completely in love with their first daughter's name (Elise), they're struggling to come up By Duana • Jul 22, 2016 04:00 pm
