My Mother Lives in Her Own Minimalist Version of ‘Grey Gardens’

She makes her home inhabitable for humans

Christine Schoenwald

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Photo by Bill Mackie on Unsplash

Grey Gardens, the documentary about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, could be a film about my mother — minus the hoarding.

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Christine Schoenwald

Writer for The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Next Avenue, Business Insider, and Your Tango Christineschoenwaldwriter.com