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This is what the page looks like where you can vote at LitHub for our Duchess Goldblatt
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Make sure you scroll down so that you can find @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social and vote for her at the link listed above.
Photo of the link to the LitHub Bracket where you can go vote for Duchess Goldblatt
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Doubly good morning
Kitchen counter, knife block to the left, bananas in a bunch middle-back of screen, two Duchess Mugs front and center, filled with coffee, whipped cream, and a generous helping of sprinkles. In the background, cream-colored subway tile backsplash, and to the right my maternal grandmother's green ceramic toothpick holder. No toothpicks inside.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Good morning, all
Coffee mug adorned by the face of Duchess Goldblatt and topped with whipped cream and lively sprinkles. Mug rests on shabby wooden table near a dark window to the pre-dawn balcony. Coffee table books, 5 of them, in a blurred stack to the left, geode crystal sitting on top. To the right, one peek of a Cape Cod painting by our friend Edward. It is early. The time change hasn't helped anyone.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A belated good morning ☀️
Coffee (semi-sloshed at left edge) in a mug adorned by the face of Duchess Goldblatt. No whipped cream. White bookshelf. Some books lined up in a row. That face, that face, looks out at us, and we still have hope.
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Good morning, all
Wooden coffee table. Festive Duchess mug filled to the brim with coffee and topped with whipped cream and sprinkles. In the blurred background, a cushioned window seat with pale green beachy pillows. A hearty good morning to marchers, ralliers, and friends of peace and freedom everywhere.
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Good morning, especially, to @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social and all of her friends
White balcony. Classic Duchess Mug™️ filled with coffee, cinnamon, and light foam rests on the railing. In the distance, palm trees, homes, one with a metal roof nearby to the upper right. Farther back, you can see the early sunrise gradations of blue, pink, peach, and light yellow tones of a changing sky. Moon, not pictured, slightly less full than yesterday, sits high and to the left. Still bright.
October 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Improved!
Same photo as above, but with Duchess Goldblatt added to mug
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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National Coffee Day, and we are back to basics, heading to Texas.
White to-go cup with brown cardboard grip. Lidless with wooden stirrer inside. Cup is filled with black coffee. Natural wood table with White Sox insignia in darker brown stain at edge. White paper napkin in blurred background. White metal barstool with backs in the distance, indicating a Chicago Airport restaurant.
September 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Duchess watches over a bookshelf shelf holding poetry, plays, a glass apple.

cc: @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
White living room bookshelf. Natural wood coaster. Atop coaster rests a Duchess Goldblatt™️ coffee mug filled with espresso and the only remaining dollop of whipped cream (melted) from our fridge. A bit of side eye from Your Grace this morning. She knows there are no colorful sprinkles today. But there is poetry, there are plays.
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Good morning. Let’s flashback to this thrilling moment!
Photo of a 2017 tweet by Duchess Goldblatt wherein she posted a picture of a coffee mug adorned with my (back then, youthful) face. I laughed and laughed with great delight.
September 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Good morning, all
Photo of the Duchess Coffee Mug I've had longest, battered by the dishwasher, nicked and scratched, whipped cream dollop on the top, rests on kitchen island countertop. In the blurred blue-gray distance is the living room with two navy barrel chairs and white shelves of books. The beloved television shines with a reflection of morning light from the windows. Fireplace sits cold beneath the television. The day and the world begin to right themselves, as indicated by Duchess Goldblatt herself.
September 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Good morning, most of all, to @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
Three white bookshelves filled with books. Middle shelf holds an extra copy of Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous lying on its side with a "Duchess Mug" resting atop a wooden coaster on the face of the book. Mug holds coffee with whipped cream and cinnamon. Many of the books in the background are signed by friends I met on Twitter, back when Twitter made magic real. Now we have each other, even from afar.
September 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Never Forget #2016LicensePlate by @budzilla.com
featuring @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
Black TRD Pro SUV photographed from the back. Shows back license plate made by Bud Simpson. Plate displays the visage of Duchess Goldblatt along with the words, "Follow Us! We’re Rolling With The Duchess!"
September 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Good morning, especially, to the true friend who sent me a pepper grinder full of m&ms.
Mug adorned by the face of Duchess Goldblatt. Inside the mug is piping hot coffee topped with whipped cream and crushed, cracked colorful m&ms. The mug sits atop a dark granite countertop. The wall behind it is a modern cityscape backsplash made of hard angles in white grout, each shape is in a color scheme of brown, grey, espresso, marbled white and striated brown/grey/white shapes made to look like buildings. Somewhere, someone, a genius probably, looks at this photo from another home, knowing he/she/they mailed the photographer the exact pepper grinder that rests to the right of the mug. Pepper grinder holds, instead of cracked pepper, brilliantly, a bright and varied stash of m&ms. Cinnamon in a plastic grocery store bottle sits to the right of that, for taste.
August 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Hello, Chicago. Texas appreciates you.
Sunrise over Lake Michigan. Two shadowed city buildings to the left. Sun looks like a fiery orange orb, rising over the blues and pinks of water and sky. An almost fluorescent slash of orange between banks of clouds near the top of the scene gives a lift, some hope, the tiniest bit of relief, but more than that: belief.
August 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Good morning to everyone who values democracy ❤️💙🤍
Sunrise in Chicago just before 6am. Light is breaking across Lake Michigan in the background. Midground, blurred city lights and greenery from Millennium Park. Foreground and to the mid/low left of the scene rests a coffee mug on a thick black window sill, freshly dusted, clean. Mug contains coffee, a dollop of whipped cream and a restrained amount of sprinkles. The side of the mug facing the viewer shows a photo of Frans Hals painting, "Portrait of an Elderly Lady." We all know it's really The Duchess Goldblatt. Off camera and to the right sits a thriving, green money tree. Health, wealth, safety for all? Lord, hear our prayer.
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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What is your chocolate of choice? I just tried Lindt 90% cocoa, and was surprised to discover it was smooth and not chalky or crumbly! I've decided it's a health food.
Photo of a Lindt Chocolate Bar with white background, lettering at top is in elegant gold. 3.5 oz. Dark Chocolate. Black, white, and gold color scheme.
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Good morning, all
Dining table covered by green felt puzzle mat. Round blue puzzle trays sit in the foreground and blurred background, each filled with sorted puzzle pieces. Blurred wall painting in background with white, umber, green, and gold tones. Mid-photo rests a mug of coffee piled high with whipped cream and brightly colored sprinkles. The mug itself shows the face of Duchess Goldblatt looking out, I think, approvingly with a set, defiant optimism.
August 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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I got a mention in this excellent piece by @wendiaarons.bsky.social
📣🐜📣

www.texasmonthly.com/travel/why-f...
Screenshot of article about fire ants in Texas. Colorful art with cartoon drawing of an ant in the grass plus text
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Good morning, all 🧩🧩🧩
Coffee mug adorned by the ever-lovely visage of Duchess Goldblatt rests, filled with espresso and a drizzle of cream, on an unfinished puzzle atop a wooden dining table. Puzzle depicts a still life of another table scene including flowers in a vase, a basket of leafy purple produce and five perfect bananas. To the right in the puzzle's world, bottles with thin necks serve as extra flower vases. Dragon fruit lays on its side near the bananas. Out here, in our lesser world, the three missing puzzle pieces left out of the box of a somewhat pricy puzzle first sent us searching and now leave us thwarted.
August 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🤍💛🤍💛🤍
July 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Thank you to my miracle.

@miraclecharlie.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A post-concert good morning to all who celebrate.
A coffee mug swirled high with whipped cream and colorful sprinkles rests on a black windowsill. The mug is decorated by a close-up photo of the countenance of Duchess Goldblatt, looking straight (forthrightly!) at the viewer. In the blurred background are tall brick city buildings (white, orange, tan) and up to the far right a small bright patch of morning sky and below that a blurred patch of the green lawn of a city park. Maybe some rooftops in the middle distance. A healthy helping of gratitude forms the overall atmosphere 🤍
July 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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A lovely evening. 🤍
Lyle Lovett playing guitar on stage at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago with his Large Band. Red stage lighting, Lyle's head slightly bent, saxophonist on standby back and to the right. A perfect night.
July 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM