Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Another Pair of Dice by the Dashboard Light
“Twenty-eight dollars!” I screamed. “We put in 100 hours between us and we split twenty-eight dollars?”
Oh, the Trauma of Goldfish
I can relate completely to the tenuous existence of goldfish as pets to young boys. My first foray into owning goldfish [...]
The Good, The Bad, Even Some Ugly
If I may steal from Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. 2017 had a lot of both, [...]
No Longer on the Move
Moving is a pain. No one enjoys it. That’s one of many reasons I am happy that I’ve been settled in my home for [...]
Talkin’ ’bout my generation
The Who, in their song My Generation, famously said “Hope I die before I get old.”
In Harm’s Way
Until her death ten years ago, we lived a few blocks away from Patricia Neal in downtown Edgartown, where she had been been a [...]
Food Tech Tutor
Technically, we're not allowed to have the fresh vegetables, but most guards tend to look the other way.
Milk and Honey
Milk and Honey Flu Season, 3:00am HE (coughing, wakes spouse) “My throat’s killing me, I think I need some warm milk [...]
Treasure Room
David took a job with Google DeepMind and moved to London in January, 2015. Google put him up in a two bedroom apartment for [...]
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