Published on May 17, 2026
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer We had a plant* in the living room that just didn’t fit. It had one long, leaning stalk with oddly colored leaves that never changed. It did nothing as far as plants go. But I knew it was alive because it hadn’t wilted. Once
Published on May 8, 2017
By Davalynn Spencer @davalynnspencer Last summer, grasshoppers denuded a young aspen tree I had so lovingly planted in the spring. With plague-like precision, they took it down to nothing but trunk and stems. The lady at the nursery where I bought the tree told me it wasn’t