Middle-Aged Lady Mom HOT FLASHES: Manifest or Famine

Notes from a Woo Woo Pioneer

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When my mother and brother discovered The Secret they couldn’t wait to spill it.

“You just think good thoughts and they come true!”

At least that’s how I remember their instruction. It’s been a few years.

Oh man, how I loathed them talking about The Secret and it’s goody-goody, think-about-rainbows-and-manifest-all-the-gold ways. Really? That’s it? Daydream about Michelle Obama’s biceps and kiss all the cap sleeves in my wardrobe goodbye?

My mom sighed. A sound I was all too familiar with. “You just don’t get it.”