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Be Happy, Be Happy

May 29, 2024 Jordan Rizzieri

Technically, it's Monday, May 29th, 2017. Today is the final day of Progress Wrestling's Super Strong Style 16 tournament weekender. I fly back to America in 36 hours, and, to be honest, I really don't want to go.

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In Wrestling, Friendship Tags Progress Wrestling, Super Strong Style 16, SSS16, BritWres, UK Wrestling, 2017, Friendship

The Song

January 31, 2023 Jordan Rizzieri

I wish, dear reader, that I could paint you a detailed picture of the first time I heard any of Vinnie Caruana’s music. I can’t. I’m from Long Island, and when I was in my teens and early 20’s, Vinnie’s voice was just always there.

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In Music, Friendship Tags music, live music, Vinnie Caruana, I Am the Avalanche, The Movielife, Canandaigua Lake, Friends, Is This Really Happening, grief, loss, mothers, daughters, pandemic

On Making New Friends

January 2, 2022 Jordan Rizzieri

After college, I lived in a place where many of my friends were not that far away, and yet I disliked that all of my nearest and dearest were no longer just across the quad or down the street.

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In Friendship Tags friendship, friends

January 5th, 2018

July 9, 2021 Jordan Rizzieri

Days earlier I’d stood in Anfield for the first time on a tour that was meant to be a gift for someone else but ended up being more of a gift to myself.

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In Friendship Tags Football, Liverpool FC, The Beautiful Game, Virgil Van Dijk

The Lilac Bush

May 8, 2020 Jordan Rizzieri

I never really took notice of lilacs until I went to school in Western New York.

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In Friendship Tags lilacs, friendship, friends, college, fredonia, western new york

Ruminations on a Wet Dog

March 29, 2020 Jordan Rizzieri
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I envy that life, a life that includes long, thought-provoking walks in the woods, when I really think about it.

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In Friendship Tags writing, friendship, dogs, walking, social isolation, social distancing, quarantine, coronavirus, COVID-19, rainy day

The Dinner Party Scene

February 24, 2020 Jordan Rizzieri
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…friends have always felt like the closest thing to true companions I could find. You get a choice in their being a part of your life, unlike your family, and that choice is a powerful thing.

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In Friendship Tags friends, food, Notting Hill, Richard Curtis, Films, Dinner parties

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