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A Tale of Jobs Not Well Done

Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh writes weekly essays about addiction, work, identity, and the long road back. These stories form an ongoing memoir titled A Tale of Jobs Not Well Done. Based in Seattle.

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September 10th, 2001

Sept 2026

I started this writing endeavor almost one year ago. Fifty weekly essays in, and I am still uncovering the baggage of a life messily drawn outside of the lines, as I mine though the decades where I preferred to hide behind alcoho...

6 days ago
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Making it Rain in Ireland

Leixlip Castle, after ducking under the curtain wall, ugh.

The beverage cart was bumping its way down the aisle on its first and only pass of the flight. Both stewardesses were cheerfully doling out drinks for the hour-long flight from Hea...

13 days ago
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Winging it in Buffalo (Part 2)

The author, four beers in on making hot wings

There’s a guy from The Buffalo News with a shoulder-mounted video camera inches behind me and George Shea is excitedly giving color commentary over a microphone to the thousand or so wing fans...

20 days ago
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Winging It in Buffalo

Anchor Bar, the home of the original Buffalo Wing, Buffalo NY

“There is a particular kind of happiness available only to people who don’t yet understand what they’re doing”

~Unknown

My flight leaves in 2 hours and I’m barely able to get...

a month ago
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The Goddamned Salad

Pike Place Market/ Seattle Met/ Ariel Shearer

I smell like food.

It’s not exactly unpleasant but it’s not a good smell. Or maybe it’s terrible- I can’t tell anymore. I do know that it’s my smell, and it permeates everything about me and I...

a month ago
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    I got sober in midlife. I write about my addiction through storytelling, sitting in the ‘uncomfortable’ and what identity means when you’ve finally come up for air. Messy. Greatly imperfect. Proudly honest.

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