Lifestyle Duana Names: Fix the Nick Hi Duana, We are expecting our first, a little boy, in late October, and my husband is insisting on a junior unless I have another name I'm truly passionate about (which unfortunately I don't). The thing is, his name is kind of a pretentious one for By Duana • Oct 07, 2015 02:23 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Strife, Drama, and definitely not Otto Hi Duana, We are expecting our second child in early October and we are not finding out the sex. We have a daughter named Alice (thankfully the royals side-stepped it!). We know it’s not really unique, but it’s not widely used where we live…(yet). Coming up with By Duana • Oct 05, 2015 03:27 pm
The Affair The Storm The Affair Season 2 Episode 1 recap Oh, I forgot how much I missed this show. It’s such a tiny, rarefied slice of people, with the epitome of high-class problems, buying hotels and going to benefit dinners but somehow also being married to people who don’t know how By Duana • Oct 05, 2015 09:11 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Within The Parameters We could really use some help. We are expecting in two weeks (yes cutting it close) and although my husband thinks we've landed on names, I'm feeling very uncertain. We are both francophones. Baby will have his last name (two-syllable French last name that starts with By Duana • Oct 02, 2015 02:03 pm
Scandal Shame Pressing On Me Scandal Season 5 Episode 2 recap I’m not going to complain if every episode of Scandal opens with Sally’s show, and neither are you. Because her outrage at the day-to-day workings of the White House and the despicable characters in it are, as you and I both know, By Duana • Oct 02, 2015 10:26 am
How To Get Away With Murder Watch Those Hands How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 2 recap I mean, we could talk about the episode – the twin cases that are going to play out all season, figuring out whether Annalise will be charged with Sam’s murder, why Nate cares about her, and what happened at By Duana • Oct 02, 2015 09:57 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Getting the L out A little housekeeping: A big shout-out to Samantha who knew that the nerdiness of me was referencing the 8-child Pike family in the BSC books by saying I associated Margo with Byron in this column. I didn’t reply to her before because I was having email issues. I think By Duana • Sep 30, 2015 01:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Not, you know, You-neek Hi Duana! Love your advice. So here's our predicament. Baby 2, whose sex we will not find out, is due October 8th. Our 1st, a girl, is Linden. We LOVE Linden because it is unique but not you-neek, it's a real but underused name, and it By Duana • Sep 28, 2015 03:18 pm
Masters of Sex Questions and revelations Masters Of Sex Season 3 Episode 12 recap Thanks for bearing with me after last week, where the Emmys kind of stood in the way of Masters and Johnson’s psychological warfare. I think there are people who really liked last week’s episode, but I wasn’t one of By Duana • Sep 28, 2015 09:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Adam and Leighton have an Arlo Leighton Meester gave birth to her baby with Adam Brody like a while ago. August 4th. In a hospital way out of town, so that you wouldn’t know and chase them while they took their first shaky walks with the stroller or yell at them for using the baby By Duana • Sep 25, 2015 12:30 pm
Scandal Princesses and Power Scandal Season 5 Episode 1 recap There’s no return to form quite like a ‘Scandal’ return to form. This is exactly what we’ve been craving all these months – state dinners, dramatic coats used for dramatic purposes, and a healthy dose of having to choose between various terrible people, By Duana • Sep 25, 2015 11:05 am
How To Get Away With Murder Damn. How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 1 recap Wow. Take a breath and after that, see if you can remember everything that just happened, and otherwise let me get enough words out to get below the jump. Yes? Okay. Holy sh*t. The last three minutes of By Duana • Sep 25, 2015 10:18 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Names We Cannot Use Dear Duana, Help! We are expecting our second son in early October. We had a difficult time naming our first son but once he was born settled on the perfect name for him, Mathis Alexander. You see, my husband is a teacher and I work with rescue dogs and have By Duana • Sep 23, 2015 02:13 pm
Gorgessity Best Dressed - Kerry Washington I have an unsettling theory to put forward. Do you think that maybe Kerry Washington is the embodiment of a cliché? You know the one, right? A person who is as beautiful inside as they are out? Look, I know, I’m on little sleep and it seems saccharine in By Duana • Sep 21, 2015 01:32 pm
Amazingness Best Speech – Viola Davis “The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity.” Go ahead. Let the line sink in. In fact, go even further and allow yourself to acknowledge that if you saw those words being spoken, you were a part of a moment. “You cannot win an Emmy By Duana • Sep 21, 2015 12:25 pm
Emmy Awards 2015 Emmy Den Mother Tina Fey I really had to hold my breath for a second to think of what Tina Fey’s dress reminded me of. The image sprang into my head immediately but I had to wait for it to sort of self-locate, because it was so specific. Ready? There is a part in By Duana • Sep 21, 2015 11:17 am
