• “The Day Influenza A Turned Us All Into Zombies”

    A Caravan, Six People, and a Porridge Incident There’s a special kind of hell that arrives in winter. It’s called Influenza A. It doesn’t just make you sick — it invades your home and turns your family into zombies. And I don’t mean the fun, slow ones in movies. I mean the kind who stare…


  • “If Joy Had an Address”

    If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? If I were going to open a shop, it wouldn’t be the kind where you pop in, grab your thing, and leave with a plastic bag.No. It would be a soul-supply store. The shelves?Stacked with jars of belly laughs, the kind that…


  • Dose Delivered: Real, Raw, Recklessly Honest

    What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? I want Your Dose of Happiness to be the kind of place where people exhale and go,“Oh, thank f*ck, someone finally said it.” A space that doesn’t sugarcoat healing.That reminds you that growth doesn’t always smell like sage and lavender…


  • “Where Sorrows Bloom into Wildflowers”

    Describe your life in an alternate universe. In an alternate universe,I live on the edge of a warm, wind-brushed sea. My home is a mosaic of driftwood, stained glass, and vines, humming softly with bees in the morning and lantern light at night. I spend my days tending a garden that grows not just food,…


  • Soft Joy’s for a Loud Life

    List 30 things that make you happy. Which ones are your kind of happy? Let’s compare notes. Love Stefanie Anna