This First Person column was written by Calgary resident Thao Nguyen. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
My brother Dai threatened to evict my beautiful tropical plant from our living room.
“Take it to your room or I will dump it.”
I was livid. Could he not see it was the perfect spot for a philodendron selloum? Sure, I had assured Dai when I bought the plant that it would live in my room, but it had grown and needed more space.
We were two adults fighting over a plant and this — sometimes — is multigenerational living.
I’m 30 and I live in
