Let's Take Happiness Out of the Closet

THE TRICK IN AA is to be happy and then get away with it!" A woman friend with a wry grin said that to me several years ago when I was about three years sober. I did not fully understand her odd sound of isolation or what she was saying. And how could I? I was wallowing in the pain of a lost love, barely making it financially, and confused about my job. She, on the other hand, had it made. She was married, financially secure, owned her own business, and was seven years sober.