Lifestyle Duana Names: The Good Name Grief Hi Duana, I am due in July and need major help! My husband and I are having twins after some struggles getting pregnant and are so happy to learn that they are a boy and a girl! Our daughter's name is giving us the most grief: the front By Duana • Jul 19, 2016 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Adventures of Margaret’s Brother Hi Duana! I promise I am not stalking you! Due to medical reasons I am having baby #2 (a boy) earlier than anticipated so the date has moved up, yet we are still at a complete impasse for a name. However, I may have one that I wanted to run By Duana • Jul 15, 2016 03:02 pm
TV Updates Emmy Nominations 2016 Before we get to the nominations, let me just point out how much more energy and excitement there is when the West Coast doesn’t have to wake up at 3:30 AM. Whether that’s good or bad is up to the nomination show’s producers, I guess. The By Duana • Jul 14, 2016 02:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which We Meet A Genius And Learn Stuff Hi Duana! We are expecting a baby boy at the end of July and have literally no name list! We have a daughter named Vera and we both love her name. It's traditional yet rare and our Russian and Spanish relatives and English and French (we live in By Duana • Jul 13, 2016 04:51 pm
Maple Leaf Return of ‘Celebrity’ Baby Names? On the weekend, Liv Tyler announced the birth of her baby girl Lula Rose. Once upon a time that might have been offbeat enough to be memorable—like eleven years ago when she named her son the then-unusual Milo. Maybe. But I hope Tyler wasn’t looking for much column By Duana • Jul 11, 2016 01:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can A Name Really Be Unlucky? Hi Duana, I always loved the name Mallory for a girl. I am due this August and started to research a bit more into the name and discovered that the meaning of Mallory is "unfortunate" or "unlucky". I really still want to use this name, but By Duana • Jul 08, 2016 03:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can You Choose A Name First? Duana, We have an unknown amount of time to answer our question - we're prospective adoptive parents currently in the "waiting period" portion of the adoption process. Potentially, we might not have much lead time between learning about a child who could be placed with us By Duana • Jul 06, 2016 05:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Naming a Star Hi Duana, My husband and I need your help! We've narrowed down our name choices for our newborn boy who is due in a few weeks to: Mars Alexander, Apollo Sebastian/Fielding or Lawrence Apollo. His last name will be a hyphenated name with each name having two By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 05:31 pm
Music Love Make The World Go Round Lin-Manuel Miranda cannot quit Twitter. So that’s where he posted yesterday morning that he would soon have music that “you don’t need tickets to hear”. Because he’s not busy enough and doesn’t have enough jobs. Turns out it’s a charity single with JLo, Love Make By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 12:52 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession John Krasinski & Emily Blunt’s new daughter Violet She has arrived – John Krasinski tweeted: What better way to celebrate the 4th... than to announce our 4th family member!!! 2 weeks ago we met our beautiful daughter Violet #Happy4th— John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) July 4, 2016 A sweet sentiment, right? It also makes his previous tweet, wishing ‘all fellow dads By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bridget Jones’s Face It’s been a relatively slow long weekend on social media, which was bad news for Owen Gleiberman, author of the ridiculously misogynistic Variety article about Renee Zellweger's face in the new Bridget Jones trailer. I really thought about whether or not using that word was hyperbole, but By Duana • Jul 04, 2016 02:52 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Desperate, Yet Unique? Hi Duana, I am so confused. Pregnancy hormones are not helping! We are expecting our second child in less than 2 weeks and are choosing not to find out the gender. However, we are stumped on names. We both are of Indian origin and thought we were being unique in By Duana • Jun 29, 2016 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Why Now? Hi Duana, I'm not pregnant but I have a name question or curiosity that I need to have some clarity on. We had a baby girl in December and named her Kyra. One month before she was born an acquaintance had a girl named Kiera. Two months after By Duana • Jun 27, 2016 04:32 pm
TV Updates Michelle and Rory, Sitting in a Library When Barack and Michelle Obama became the most media savvy and best-dressed First Couple in our collective memories, we all nodded, sage. It made sense. Sure, Barack would want to keep his Blackberry, and obviously Michelle Obama wore Lululemon. (OMG, that last sentence. Were we ever so young? Now he By Duana • Jun 27, 2016 03:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Unique Do I Need To Go? Hi Duana, I have a unique name: Siobhan. Luckily I live in the UK so most people know how to pronounce it but I grew up in Australia where they didn't. Few can spell it but I've gotten so used to it that I don' By Duana • Jun 24, 2016 03:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: But Please, No Hi Duana, Writing in for my work wife who is due in June. Her daughter is Eliana and they had a very hard time coming up with that name. Mom and dad have very common 80s names (mom is something like Lauren or Julie* and dad is something like Jason By Duana • Jun 22, 2016 04:54 pm
