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I Know It All Comes Down to Love or Money... Or Sailing, Part II
I Know It All Comes Down To Love or Money... Or Sailing, Part I
#WomanCrushWednesday: Sally Jewell - Musings, by Annette Proffitt Productions
You Can Find Me in St. Louis - Musings, by Annette Proffitt Productions
Jane's House - Whatever It's Called Now - Musings, by Annette Proffitt Productions
The Trickle Down Effect - Painting by E.L.K, Notion Proved Daily by Assholes - Musings, by Annette
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Billie Proffitt
Sep 9, 20197 min read
Rex, King of Mardi Gras
I have been so scared to commit to ANYTHING, because I look down the barrel of all the bad things that could happen, and I completely lose..
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 26, 20192 min read
“A Golden Cage Is Still Just A Cage.”
I don’t want to marry a man who loves me like you do, because you love me from afar, like I’m some pretty bird kept in a gilded cage...
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Billie Proffitt
May 7, 20198 min read
What. A. Basic. Fuckwit.
And then that was it. A few days before he landed back in The States, I never heard from him again. Is he dead? Most likely not...
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Billie Proffitt
Mar 15, 201911 min read
March 15, 2019
I have been looking forward to today for weeks now - years actually, if I put it all together… All the pain, the loss, the heartbreak, the..
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Billie Proffitt
Feb 6, 20194 min read
First Class to Freakin' February-Chilly Tennessee
One of the things I remember most vividly about my childhood on American Airlines was the blessing of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies...
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Billie Proffitt
Jan 26, 20197 min read
How To End A Friendship.
The next day: January 21, 2012, Morning: Bestie & I sit crying on the living room floor with our feet hanging down the step to the patio...
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Billie Proffitt
Jan 24, 20197 min read
RE: Conversion proceedings
"I'm willing to discuss anything and everything because I've had enough of this," he claimed...
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 8, 20184 min read
One Sweet Glimpse of Truth On The Witness Stand
I’ve been in various civil lawsuits against my estranged defacto spouse since early 2014 and we spent a number of days in trial over the...
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 30, 20185 min read
A Saturday Morning Dream
Because it's not awkward to email your ex's father's childhood best friend somewhat out of the blue describing a Saturday morning dream...
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Billie Proffitt
May 8, 20182 min read
Bob's Big Boy, Toluca Lake
I tried to go to Forest Lawn but it closed before we finished chatting at my Aunt’s kitchen table… For as long as I can remember I yearned..
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Billie Proffitt
May 2, 20183 min read
The Many Inspirations of Nana
Obviously my tears are not about the pet friends in the videos.
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Billie Proffitt
Apr 25, 20183 min read
Waiwera - Natural Artesian Water
It’s a funny thing, life is… all the arbitrary ways we feel so beautifully loved, & the bizarre ways with which we can...
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Billie Proffitt
Oct 11, 20178 min read
Oh! For the Love of Charlie... When Law Marries Art, For Better or For Worse
...as I heel-toe stride across the top side of Sydney’s iconic Archibald Fountain, hoping I’m not too late.
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Billie Proffitt
Sep 27, 20176 min read
"Are You the Other Woman?"
My phone started ringing. It was Jeremy’s photo and name, but when I answered, it was a woman. “Hi, this is Jeremy’s wife,” she said.
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Billie Proffitt
Sep 13, 20179 min read
Well, Today Didn't Go As Planned
Like an endless stream of girl’s date nights, she spoiled me always, and most often in the chunks of contracts when she lived in LA...
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Billie Proffitt
Sep 6, 20173 min read
The Feelings
Imagine what we could do if it wasn’t just a few girls we felt this amongst, but what if we opened up our circles to feel this with...
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 30, 20174 min read
But Can Mike Judge Save Us?
Post-9/11 explains so many annoyances of my life – I mean it’s the most alluded to fear-mongering event in my generation...
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 23, 20179 min read
There Are Plenty of Coyotes In The Hills
"I was what you wanted you were what I needed
And we could meet in between
We were gonna be the greatest love story this town had ever seen"
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 16, 20174 min read
The Proposal
...lights of Hennepin Bridge, and he balanced us right there in the middle of the Mississippi River, as he got up on on one knee.
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 9, 20173 min read
Our Story for The Knot
The first time we were asked, “how long y’all been married?” was outside on Broadway about thirteen minutes after we exchanged first names..
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 2, 20173 min read
One Year Later
With the drop of the bouquet I was, (dun-dun-dun)… In a relationship.
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Billie Proffitt
Aug 2, 20164 min read
CALLING IN THE ONE
Dear Missed Connections – to the couple who kissed in the West Hollywood doorway at Norah tonight… Thank you.
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Billie Proffitt
Jul 26, 20167 min read
MY RED, RIGHT HAND - "TAKE A LITTLE WALK TO THE EDGE OF TOWN & GO ACROSS THE TRACKS..."
...unanticipated pain – that of my skin splitting under the dismounting weight added to force + gravity. F = GMm over r2, right?
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Billie Proffitt
Jul 19, 20163 min read
HOW ARE YOU?
Well, I am wearing the same clothes I have been for 2 days now when my luggage went to Texas without me, have about 14% of my voice left...
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Billie Proffitt
Jul 12, 20164 min read
THE FOLLOW THROUGH OF LIZARD FACE
And there out of the darkness, one of them arrived. “Excuse me, Miss?” a perfect British accent, with a perfectly striking British man...
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Billie Proffitt
Jul 5, 20164 min read
LIZARD FACE
...he was a professional forklift driver but was fired on the spot for deciding his new uniform was nothing more than his underwear & boots.
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 28, 20165 min read
VANILLA, STARRING HEARTTHROB BRENT SMITH & (NOT) AMERICA'S SWEETHEART BILLIE PROFFITT
Two years ago I was on a soul-searching, summer solo road trip through Middle America… I was looking for the happy version of myself...
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 21, 20165 min read
"MEXICO - IT SOUNDS SO SIMPLE, I JUST GOT TO GO"
"Last time I got a new passport was 10 years ago, the first stamp was to Mexico & the accident happened 2 days later," my voice squeaked...
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 14, 20165 min read
WeHo Pride, 2016
Moments like these – celebrations like these – movements like these are constantly shaping the world for the better in our march of...
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Billie Proffitt
Jun 7, 20163 min read
SUPER TUESDAY
...at least I get to go to sleep knowing I stood there, I showed up & I listened to these people’s rants, & qualms, & questions...
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Billie Proffitt
May 31, 20163 min read
I SEE GOODNESS IN YOU - PURE & SIMPLE
I’m all ears for when you have a voice to speak honest words worth listening to, but in the meantime I have to let you go. I wish for you...
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Billie Proffitt
May 24, 20167 min read
"I KNOW IT ALL COMES DOWN, TO LOVE OR MONEY" (OR SAILING) - PART II
At this point you must be wondering if I have a background in sailing - my family, my childhood, anything? No. None. My parents'...
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Billie Proffitt
May 17, 20165 min read
"I KNOW IT ALL COMES DOWN, TO LOVE OR MONEY" (OR SAILING) - PART I
I may have lacked direction in every part of my life, but watching this lifestyle whiz by me was like a crush on the most popular senior...
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Billie Proffitt
May 10, 20165 min read
"OH, MISS DIVERSITY LADY"
I have plenty of young black men as friends, so that isn’t the problem - my main problem is my lack of finding authentic relationships...
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Billie Proffitt
May 3, 20163 min read
Just A #BoxGirl Watching Him, Watching Her
“I’ve been meaning to try & explain my new job… Because, as you suggested, I finally shaved my legs for it,” the first message read...
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Billie Proffitt
Apr 26, 20162 min read
Narcotics Anonymous, Part II: "Hi, My Name Is Billie & I'm A Sugar Addict."
In every person who spoke, I heard, saw & felt the qualms of my own life reflected back to me. As different as they appeared from me when...
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Billie Proffitt
Apr 19, 20162 min read
Narcotics Anonymous, Part 1: "That's Just Life on Life's Terms"
...in 25 years when he walked into the bar - & would’ve continued through life never knowing the difference, if our childhood hadn't died.
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Billie Proffitt
Apr 12, 20161 min read
#WomanCrushWednesday
Like a modern day Frank Abagnale, who better to be in charge of making game-altering decisions than the side-swapping...
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Billie Proffitt
Apr 5, 20162 min read
"You Can Find Me in St. Louie..."
I have spent one night in St. Louis, Missouri – & it happened to be the first Ferguson Riots.
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Billie Proffitt
Mar 30, 20163 min read
The Trickle Down Effect - Painting by E.L.K, Notion Proved Daily by Assholes
The CEO did show up after all, but he didn’t care that half the staff was leaving nearly as much as his did that the wind was disfiguring...
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Billie Proffitt
Mar 22, 20163 min read
Jane's House - Whatever It's Called Now
The bed slid back and a secret door appeared; the pretend whore winked at me when we caught eyes and as we made our way down the dark...
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