Ray is a Licensed Professional Counselor

Ray has experience with teenagers, as a foster parent, public school teacher and counselor, residential treatment center case manager, psychiatric hospital therapist, including addictions counseling. He is trained in EMDR, CBT and DBT. He holds a Master's Degree in Counseling from Texas State University.

Ray loves to write!

Ray loves to write and has professional experience as a News Director at a number of radio stations, has self-published a book on Heaven (the result of 45 years of research), has researched and published 5 family histories, and numerous photo-books documenting 18 International trips, covering all 7 continents. He is researching a new book, this one a work of fiction to follow Proving Heaven 2.0.

Published in 2017, a detailed proof that Heaven exists. Just as there are many types of proof, there are many arguments in this book. It is meant for open-minded folk. It was printed by Balboa Press in Bloomington, Indiana.
This on-demand book is a compilation of family lore, paid-for research into Czechia's online archives and an in-person visit in 2017. The Kresha line goes back to at least 1600, including a description of the peasant-slavery conditions under which they lived for centuries.
After many years of research into Hernandez family history, the results were put into this book. It includes family stories from Romana Hernandez Ramirez and other writings to collect the family immigrant story dating back 100 years and more.
Ray & Mary have been world travelers and have visiting all seven continents and over 40 countries. Each trip is put into a photo book, documenting the trip. They are quality photo books printed just for you, on demand.

Websites I've Built and Maintain

Ray was a professional journalist and became interested in politics at an early age. Later he became interested in spiritual enfoldment, leading to conflict with the ideas of politics. Given his family history, his time in a Roman Catholic Seminary, and as a journalist, this blog gives him a chance to share some insights.
This is a website to document the Kresha's immigration from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 1880's, now Moravia in Czechia. Five members of the Kressa family came to the US from what is now Nova Hradecna and changed their name to "Kresha" eventually. You will find the stories, photos, downloads of the Kresha Kronicle (a family newsletter for decades), writings and audio interviews with Eva Karges Kresha.

Central Texas Extras to Make Life More Fun, Easier

When I first moved to the Texas Hill Country, I was severely allergic to the annual cedar pollen season. Now I'm not. This is my story,, with some take-aways for you if you find yourself in this predicament!
Mary is a Master Gardener. I'm a photographer. This is the result. You can use this to find the names of some of the more common spring and summer wild flowers.
My journalism experience was in radio-tv-film. I still love it and have put together some little videos of little animals and other stuff, not to mention my travel videos, modeled after the master, Rick Steves.