Starting in 2015, MyRetrospect.com was the place for baby boomers to tell their stories. Each week, we posted a prompt and invited boomers to think back and share forward their life stories, memories, thoughts, joys, and sorrows. By publishing stories and comments over the years, we built a thriving community of readers and writers.

In 2025, as new stories dwindled, we closed MyRetrospect.com to new members, new stories, and new comments. The site remains an archive of almost 3,500 contributed stories that comprise the collective mosaic of a generation. We invite you to browse by prompt, search by author or keyword, or let us surprise you with stories selected at random.

Enjoy! And thank you, loyal Retrospect writers and readers, for your support and for your stories.

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Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

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Disconnected
Lacking a logical sequence Early on I broke In black and white and slow motion. Unaware of the cracks Pieces missing large [...]
The Ties That Bind Us
My reconnecting stories begin with ways to rekindle old ties that have fallen away over the years.
How Do You Spell PFAU?
“You know I almost didn’t ask you out”, said Bob. We had been dating six days, were in bed, post-coitus. [...]
Still Funky after All These Years
Most of that evening is forgotten except for the music.
Mosquito Magnet
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Every 4th of July I spent in New Jersey I became exceptionally popular. This one time a year, everyone wanted me to be part [...]
Dedicated Follower of Fashion
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Hula hoops and Twiggy lashes, but not at the same time.
Working Mother and Not
My mother graduated from The Ohio State University in 1935. She wanted to study modern dance in New York City and was forever [...]
Valentine’s Day Grinch
Preschoolers understand and need expressions of love and caring every day. Come to think of it, so do most people.
No Spit
Support Our Troops / Bring Them Home
A Good Name is All I Have
I cringe when I hear jokes putting down used car sales people. My father began with a used car lot, built it into a Chrysler [...]

Writer’s Choice

Inspiration for this prompt was to see the list of past prompts, then think back and share forward your Writer’s Choice story!

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