The full obituary for my father Nick, who passed away last summer after a long, epic life!
Noyce "Nick" McGarity (1943-2023)
6 posts in Dad
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…