Scandal Lena Dunham’s Scandal Scandal Season 4 Episode 16 recap. Would it have been different without the wig? If she hadn’t had the wig, would this episode have been a little more straightforward and a little less camp? Or were we always going to have the giggles every time Sue walked into the By Duana • Mar 20, 2015 10:41 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Good for the Goose Dear Duana, We are expecting a little girl in May and we are facing a dilemma. My husband and I have been together for 15 years, and shortly after we got engaged a decade ago, we picked the names of our future children. We both loved those names. So when By Duana • Mar 18, 2015 03:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can the Tradition Continue? Hi Duana, So let me bounce this off of you. I have a daughter named Lyrah, after her grandmother. I am expecting another daughter. The other grandmother's name that we like is Alameda. I like that both of these names are unusual and have family history. I' By Duana • Mar 16, 2015 03:15 pm
Girls I do not feel sympathy for Jessa (which in itself feels wonderful) Girls Season 4 Episode 9 recap How could you feel sympathy for Jessa? You can’t! It’s glorious! In fact, maybe it’s a brilliant ploy on behalf of Dunham and Co. to make you see that you have to hate Adam – even though he was with Mimi-Rose who By Duana • Mar 16, 2015 08:47 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Vowel-free for Number Three Hi Duana, My sister is expecting her third daughter later this spring and is stuck on coming up with a name that fits with the Russian/Hebrew tradition of the first two (Raiyah and Mila) but doesn't also end in an -a. There have been soo many good By Duana • Mar 13, 2015 11:42 am
Scandal Just Theatre Scandal Season 4 Episode 15 recap Wow, what a great Vice President she will be. How secure I am in her talents. Or not: She will surely bring down the White House and all its inhabitants. Oh woe. Right? Either way, you’re like, how did we just watch a By Duana • Mar 13, 2015 10:12 am
TV Updates Mad Men - Beginning of the End There will be many, many Mad Men pieces in the next few months as the show finally closes. Seven episodes left to finish what Don Draper started years ago when he tried to figure out why that waiter wouldn’t switch to Lucky Strike cigarettes. And I’ll write some, By Duana • Mar 12, 2015 02:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Two! Two! Two names in one! Hi Duana, Totally wanted to do this on my own, but I'm throwing in the towel and turning to the expert. I'm 6 weeks away from D day, and not any closer to a name than I was months ago! My husband is Italian and I& By Duana • Mar 11, 2015 12:21 pm
Equality Issues Emma Watson Shouting Brilliance In The Wind One of my favourite Twitter feeds is “Probably A Feminist”, devoted to retweeting people who say things like “I’m not a feminist but women should get equal pay for equal work.” Or “I’m not a feminist but I believe in all the generally agreed-upon goals of feminism.” No, By Duana • Mar 11, 2015 10:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Baby Brother Standoff Hi Duana! I'm calling out an SOS for a friend in great need of urgent Name Nerd assistance: My friend Kelley is due any day now and is completely stumped on a name for baby boy #2. Big brother is named Sawyer and is completely adorable with THE By Duana • Mar 09, 2015 03:04 pm
Girls Twists Girls Season 4 Episode 8 recap I read something recently that said Lena Dunham hopes to leave the characters in Girls ‘better than we found them’, like a campsite. It’s not so unusual a concept, but on a show like this, that seems to revel in the continual return By Duana • Mar 09, 2015 10:40 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: An Update Roundup March 2015 I LOVE updates. Also, I know we’re supposed to be anti retweeting compliments, and I AM – but I don’t think this counts. You may consider me gloating. The Teacher’s Curse Update I emailed Duana and you published my letter re: The Teacher’s Curse. My husband and By Duana • Mar 06, 2015 11:55 am
Scandal My son’s name is Brandon Scandal Season 4 Episode 14 recap I would venture that this is the only show currently on TV that could have done a story like this (with the possible exception of Orange Is The New Black, and that would be a stretch). And so it’s not much of a By Duana • Mar 06, 2015 10:33 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Avoiding Trends Love you column and need some help! We are due to have our second daughter in March and are struggling with a name…our first daughter is named Scarlett and we are looking for a name that works well with Scarlett but it also has to be a bit different. By Duana • Mar 05, 2015 12:06 pm
Name Nerd Carrie Underwood’s Son, Isaiah Michael. Don’t you get the impression that Isaiah Michael Fisher is going to be called “Isaiah Michael Fisher” all the time? Like all three names, as an official label, like ‘William of Windsor’? Carrie Underwood has named her baby Isaiah Michael, and I cannot actually find a problem with it. By Duana • Mar 03, 2015 01:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Names Are The Reason Hi Duana! I'm one of those girls who never wanted to have kids, but have been coming around to the idea, much to my husband's happiness (but no worries, he never pressured me into being a mom). And the main reason I'm coming around By Duana • Mar 02, 2015 03:13 pm
