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When Ryan Miller was 4, he declared he wanted to be a writer and that he didn’t like onions, raw tomatoes, mushrooms, and most types of meat. Sixteen years later, in college, he began writing professionally and found that he actually enjoyed just about everything on his “will not eat” list. He has since worked as a columnist, reporter, newspaper editor, online marketer, and blogger, sometimes all at once, but he most enjoys writing books.

HOW TO FEED YOUR PARENTS is his first book to be published. Now—almost four decades after he first started shaping letters on paper—he lives in Northern California with his wife, three children, dog, and small flock of egg-laying hens. All of them read and eat a lot, though the humans do the bulk of the rea ...more

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How to Feed Your Parents
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It’s bananas, right?

HOW TO FEED YOUR PARENTS debuted one year ago, today!

In lieu of a more traditional cake, my children baked several loaves of banana bread in honor of the event. Actually, I’ll be honest here: We had a bunch of bananas that were past brown and on their way to mush, so the kids dug out a cookbook, doubled the recipe, and tripled the chocolate chips. It had nothin

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“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa's clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, I would still not want to do it.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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