It’s never been easy to be a journalist and a mother. Now it’s harder. Bee Quammie creeps down the stairs of her Oshawa townhouse, trying her best to embody silence, holding her breath to prevent her one-year-old, Layla, from waking up. It’s just past 7 p.m. on a late spring night in 2016, and it’s… Continue reading The Mother Load
Category: Portrait of a Journalist
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