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    Claire Bidwell Smith

    Claire Bidwell Smith

  • Then and Now: Remembering Life Before Motherhood

    As I walked down the street, the palm trees above me shrouded in a cool evening mist, I was flooded with memories of a different me. The me that lived here all those years ago, the years before I was a wife and a mother, the years before I was the woman I

  • The Loss and Gain of Having Two Children

    My biggest fear as a mom is of more loss. Because I know mother-loss so intimately, I worry all the time about the girls losing me. Them having each other assuages my fears about that in an unexpected way.

  • Dear Girls: The Truth About Beauty

    Men like to think we dress and style ourselves for them, but why would we when they hardly notice? I’ve never tried so hard to look good as when I know I’m about to meet up with a stylish girlfriend. It’s she who will notice my slimmed down waist or the t