Every year, the Social Security Administration looks at the names of all babies applying for Social Security numbers and compiles a ranking for those of us who love a good Ava, Sophia, Matthew and Joshua. Well, more than 4.2 million births were registered in 2008, and now, hot of the presses, is the big reveal. [...]

I love dreaming up baby names. I loved it when having my own babies, and I love it now, even though I plan to never pop out any more pumpkins (and mine really were kind of like pumpkins, each one weighing in at more than 10 pounds). It doesn’t matter, though, that I will no [...]