Mary McCray
@mary-mccray.bsky.social
Author of Cowboy Meditation Primer, Why Photographers Commit Suicide, Writing in the Age of Narcissism. Blogs as Cher Scholar.
My one act of care daily is cheese.
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My one act of care daily is cheese.
A postcard I sent my Dad years ago because it reminded me of summers in Roy, New Mexico. It's really a painting by NM painter Peter Hurd and probably from a scene near Roswell.
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A postcard I sent my Dad years ago because it reminded me of summers in Roy, New Mexico. It's really a painting by NM painter Peter Hurd and probably from a scene near Roswell.
For some reason this is my mother's favorite picture of us. But the boys look like corporate raiders from the 80s and I'm hiding braces.
December 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
For some reason this is my mother's favorite picture of us. But the boys look like corporate raiders from the 80s and I'm hiding braces.
There's a new potential member of the family and we are being made to watch copious amounts of Joe Bonamassa videos to explain who this guy is named after. 🎸
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
There's a new potential member of the family and we are being made to watch copious amounts of Joe Bonamassa videos to explain who this guy is named after. 🎸
Not holiday traveling among the holiday travelers. Riding light.
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Not holiday traveling among the holiday travelers. Riding light.
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Zelda Fitzgerald
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Zelda Fitzgerald
#Cher Scholar: 2025 Cher Books
A review of "Style Codes Cher" and "I Got You Babe, A Celebration of Cher"
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
A review of "Style Codes Cher" and "I Got You Babe, A Celebration of Cher"
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
#Cher Scholar: 2025 Cher Books
A review of "Style Codes Cher" and "I Got You Babe, A Celebration of Cher"
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
A review of "Style Codes Cher" and "I Got You Babe, A Celebration of Cher"
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
Sigh. Wish I had learned to ice skate.
Disclaimer: Cher will not be there!
Disclaimer: Cher will not be there!
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Sigh. Wish I had learned to ice skate.
Disclaimer: Cher will not be there!
Disclaimer: Cher will not be there!
"Like ecstasy and poetry, laughter collapses all meaning. We truly 'break up' with laughter...'die of laughter.'"
- Kathleen Rowe
- Kathleen Rowe
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Like ecstasy and poetry, laughter collapses all meaning. We truly 'break up' with laughter...'die of laughter.'"
- Kathleen Rowe
- Kathleen Rowe
I was not. But looking him up this morning, his sculptures look familiar.
Ha! Another bear.
Ha! Another bear.
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I was not. But looking him up this morning, his sculptures look familiar.
Ha! Another bear.
Ha! Another bear.
#Cher Scholar: End of 2025 Catchup
Review of the Cher news at the end of 2025: new music, movie conversations with other fans, Cher books and TV.
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
Review of the Cher news at the end of 2025: new music, movie conversations with other fans, Cher books and TV.
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
#Cher Scholar: End of 2025 Catchup
Review of the Cher news at the end of 2025: new music, movie conversations with other fans, Cher books and TV.
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
Review of the Cher news at the end of 2025: new music, movie conversations with other fans, Cher books and TV.
cherscholar.com/cherblog/202...
Breakout book of the Difficult Book group, which recommends u see 7 Sidney Poitier movies 1st. Finished No Way Out (1950) tonight. Next is Band of Angels (57), The Defiant Ones (58), Lilies of the Field (63), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night (67) and Buck and the Preacher (72).
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Breakout book of the Difficult Book group, which recommends u see 7 Sidney Poitier movies 1st. Finished No Way Out (1950) tonight. Next is Band of Angels (57), The Defiant Ones (58), Lilies of the Field (63), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night (67) and Buck and the Preacher (72).
Definition of irony?
I'm shedding on her.
I'm shedding on her.
December 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Definition of irony?
I'm shedding on her.
I'm shedding on her.
Fact.
(and have had this bookmark since I was 12.)
(and have had this bookmark since I was 12.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fact.
(and have had this bookmark since I was 12.)
(and have had this bookmark since I was 12.)
Rarely do the two book clubs start books at the same time, the "Difficult" book club of 5 girls who went to Sarah Lawrence and the Anti-Racist book club of 3 white girls formerly from St. Louis.
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Rarely do the two book clubs start books at the same time, the "Difficult" book club of 5 girls who went to Sarah Lawrence and the Anti-Racist book club of 3 white girls formerly from St. Louis.
Mistakes and erasers.
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Mistakes and erasers.
I have told someone. It is out of my head and into the real world now. For what it's worth.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I have told someone. It is out of my head and into the real world now. For what it's worth.
Zoinks! Val Kilmer fell over. We'll need to fix that.
December 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Zoinks! Val Kilmer fell over. We'll need to fix that.
Starting on my mom's New Mexico tree. That beautiful Mexican hat ornament did not make it to the tree sadly.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Starting on my mom's New Mexico tree. That beautiful Mexican hat ornament did not make it to the tree sadly.
Ladies...and gentlemen...and friends of Cher, it's showtime.
(we're color-grouping the tree this year.)
🌲❄️🤶
(we're color-grouping the tree this year.)
🌲❄️🤶
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ladies...and gentlemen...and friends of Cher, it's showtime.
(we're color-grouping the tree this year.)
🌲❄️🤶
(we're color-grouping the tree this year.)
🌲❄️🤶
Jumping off the pier was his "leap of faith" and after experiencing full immersion, it was true: he could not ever go back.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Jumping off the pier was his "leap of faith" and after experiencing full immersion, it was true: he could not ever go back.
As part of John Candy movie week I was at the end of Splash trying (stupidly) to figure out the rules of this magical world. Why can't he come back? She came back. Then I realized the movie had moved into a symbolic place. He couldn't follow her/ jump into love because he didn't know how to swim.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As part of John Candy movie week I was at the end of Splash trying (stupidly) to figure out the rules of this magical world. Why can't he come back? She came back. Then I realized the movie had moved into a symbolic place. He couldn't follow her/ jump into love because he didn't know how to swim.
Sarah Woodward is the unheralded comedic genius of "Professor T." Why isn't anybody posting about this? Her litany of faces in that episode of season 4 alone.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Sarah Woodward is the unheralded comedic genius of "Professor T." Why isn't anybody posting about this? Her litany of faces in that episode of season 4 alone.