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Noyce "Nick" McGarity (1943-2023)
The full obituary for my father Nick, who passed away last summer after a long, epic life!
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit
When I was a kid, I had amazing ideas. Earth-changing ideas! Then my entrepreneurial spirit was crushed not once, but three times. For the most part, I hated being a kid. I was always eager to be older, although I cannot recall why. Much of it had to do with
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Wedding Vows
“To have and to hold…” One day early in their marriage, mother was talking on the phone with one of her many girlfriends. The instrument she used was an old-school Bell desktop, with 12 gray plastic buttons jutting out of a beige casing, complete with a receiver so hefty and
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Kitty Bile
Back in the 1980s, our family was quite the shit — we were the first on our block to own a VCR, which we connected to our big-screen Curtis-Mathis. We supplemented that material coup with two others: a BetaMax machine and cable television. How having these items didn’t make me
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Dad 1, God Zero
For most of my elementary school years, I had to take the music class taught by Mrs. O’Neil. In a class with the same teacher year-after-year, I’m not quite sure how the semesters were supposed to be distinct — all I can remember about the classes were Yamaha recorders,
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I Love My Mother
Last night, I got a phone call I had been dreading for quite some time. My father called to tell me that my mother was in the hospital. Earlier in the day, she was visiting her primary care physician to get (of all things) a referral to the ophthalmologist. During