“Conchy” by James Childress: my humble, hand-made tribute brooch

Imagine a different world, a parallel universe where the well-loved comic “Calvin and Hobbes” simply ceased to exist before it had a chance to be discovered by so many people who love it nowadays. Sad thought, isn’t it?

Fans of a long-lost strip named “Conchy” completely understand what that feels like. Back in the 70′s, [...]

How to make an impossible dream come true: a few hopefully-helpful thoughts

This post summarizes a few good nuggets of wisdom I have learned in my life about the process of going for dreams you had thought were impossible.  Seems a lot of people on the net are searching for this info and landing on Dreamcircle. That was because I once had a page with the title [...]

XKCD and cancer survival: the best visual explanation I’ve EVER seen

XKCD is a webcomic for people who love science, tech and engineering. The artist behind the lines is Randall Munroe. Last year, his then-fiance was diagnosed with breast cancer. He then drew this amazing comic below.

I recently printed out this graphic and gave it to my oncologist as a mini-poster. She was IMPRESSED. She [...]

ASTRONOMY JEWELRY: My “Pillars of Creation” brooch

Check this out… I finished it about 2 weeks ago.

With black border

One of these days I should make a blog on the entire evolution of my new works so far. For this blog post, I’ll just share with the attempt which came before this one. Something about that blue border doesn’t quite [...]

Travel Bug Mission Cards (special note just for Geocachers)

Looking at my site stats, I am seeing quite a lot of attempts to locate an old PDF file that was on my old version of Dreamcircle. It was designed to help out geocachers. Might as well address that problem now.

Hi geo-crowd! Welcome to my re-born Dreamcircle site! :) The “TB Mission Cards” file [...]

My latest cancer & health news

The last time I was put through a PET scan machine this past November, the result was rather anxiety-inspiring… the tumor in my liver showed some new activity, just enough to raise suspicions and some fears. I thought we had killed that darn thing.

The word from my oncologist was that if it shows [...]