Lifestyle Duana Names: The Tango Maureen Hi Duana, I need help finding a name for my baby girl, due mid-April. She is my first, and most likely only, biological child, but I help raise my boyfriend's two children (a girl and a boy) from a previous relationship. Baby's last name will be By Duana • Apr 13, 2016 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can’t Have One Without The Other Hi Duana, I love your name advice posts and am hoping you might be able to give us some advice as my pregnant brain is fried! My husband and I are expecting twin girls in April. We have a two year old son, Christian John, and my name is Leith By Duana • Apr 11, 2016 04:20 pm
Girls Sake Gut Girls Season 5 Episode 8 recap Empathy, revulsion. Empathy, revulsion. It’s such a perfectly balanced equation—you can’t have Hannah or Marnie or even Jessa or Shoshanna without both in equal measure. Empathy, revulsion. Just when I’m feeling one, I cycle rapidly toward the other – more in By Duana • Apr 11, 2016 09:16 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: An Update AND Followup. An Updateup! It’s a first on Duana Names, an update email that has its own follow-up question! Not the same thing as people who wrote in about one kid and are asking advice about another one—love those names too, keep them coming! But this is a different story—a name By Duana • Apr 08, 2016 03:53 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Anne Hathaway names baby boy Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman I don’t think we even knew Anne Hathaway was having a boy, so that was a fun surprise. Then I read the name – like a lot of people, I was quite surprised. Anne was born in 1982, so chances are she went to school with a lot of Jonathans By Duana • Apr 08, 2016 11:27 am
Scandal On Having Had Enough Scandal Season 5 Episode 17 recap Well, it’s happening. They are doing it. They are pointing out exactly what happens if you’ve been keeping secrets for the president for years, and kidnapped and sold, and you can’t keep track of whether it’s your father or your By Duana • Apr 08, 2016 10:11 am
Alexis Bledel Gilmore Bait...and switch? This week’s Entertainment Weekly has exclusive photos of the upcoming Gilmore Girls movies coming to Netflix later this year, and I am curious. I am excited. I am very, very much aware that I’m being teased. There’s nothing in these pictures we don’t know. Lorelai and By Duana • Apr 07, 2016 03:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: 4 names, 4 weeks, no clues Hi Duana, My husband and I are in a bit of a bind. We have 4 weeks until our due date and are still circling around 4 very different baby names - we would LOVE some help on narrowing this down or any insights or thoughts you might have. Some By Duana • Apr 06, 2016 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stonewalled by Taylor? Hey Duana, Having my first child, a daughter, in July. My wife is set on naming our daughter Taylor. She picked the name when she was very young and while she says she's open to other names, in practice, every name I suggest gets shot down. Even when By Duana • Apr 04, 2016 03:07 pm
Girls The Dangers of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ Posters Girls Season 5 Episode 7 recap God, I love Ray so much. Do you think that he has a mansplaining monologue about the dangers of mansplaining? Because I know he does, and I really want to hear it. I will listen to him Deep Internet any day. Even though he By Duana • Apr 04, 2016 09:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are we secretly Brange superfans? We are expecting a girl (our second daughter, she also has a big brother) at the end of April. Just for background information, her brother's name is Jude Greyson, so Biblical and a family name. Her sister's name is Naomi Griffin, so she, also, has a By Duana • Apr 01, 2016 03:51 pm
Scandal The Intervention Scandal Season 5 Episode 16 recap Hands up if you only really woke up when Mellie read Mean Tweets about herself. That woman is a ray of sunshine, and if Marcus’s only purpose on this show is to get her out of her head and onto the Jimmy Kimmel By Duana • Apr 01, 2016 09:45 am
Theatre Nerd Wrong Side of History You know how, when everyone really likes a thing, someone gets jealous or sick of how well that thing is doing, and there’s a backlash? Jennifer Lawrence, Scandal, Paleo? Well, someone decided it was time for a Hamilton backlash—except they really picked the wrong battle. The open call By Duana • Mar 31, 2016 10:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: I LOVE IT…now what? Duana, Okay, you know how people say to keep a perhaps… controversial name choice a secret until the baby is born? That no one can really talk shit about it, because it's attached to an actual adorable little human being? Yeah, I maybe tried to do the opposite By Duana • Mar 30, 2016 02:47 pm
TV Updates You need to binge-watch American Crime Story We’ve been at ‘peak TV’ for a while now, so what’s your method for dealing with the pressures of all there is? I assume it’s “tune out all but the essentials”, but I’m gonna need you to reconsider. I gobbled down two episodes of American Crime By Duana • Mar 29, 2016 05:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Journey to the End of the Alphabet Hi Duana, I have a good friend who's due with her 3rd boy, and she knows what an obsessive name nerd that I am, so she and her husband asked me to write you and help her figure out a name! I asked her all the questions I By Duana • Mar 28, 2016 03:39 pm
