Broke-Ass Grouch once wrote a pretty infamous blog, as well as many sundry books and articles under the name of the journalist Susan Gregory Thomas. Then times fucking changed, with the recession, and her life, likely yours—and our motherland, the USA—has never been the same. Can we survive with actual humor and realism? Let’s take it on, brothers and sisters!

Some of you may recall Broke-Ass Grouch from the blog she published several years ago, while raising her kids on a punk rock Victory farm in Red Hook Brooklyn, before but it was out of even Russian oligarchs’ budget. A lot of changed. And in not good ways. , Yet is good. Somehow, life can be good. That’s what we’re going to do together. With me? Damned straight you are!

If you've been married or partnered for, well, pretty much your whole adult life, dating for the first time ever is a revelation--in shockingly complicated emotional complexity. In grown men.

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