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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Digital Sea
by
I am drowning in a digital sea, I am slipping beneath the sound, Here my voice goes to ones and zeros.
Spare Me The Quaintness
I’ll take a clean, business-like, functioning, reliable, no nostalgia Hilton Garden Inn anytime/anywhere.
KidTV: When the outdoors moved inside
Growing up, we learned a lot from TV, but we also just had a lot of kid fun with locally produced shows.
It Won’t Be Long
by
In this cartoon, all the jurors are looking at their phones. Is that how it started, these shorter and shorter attention spans?
Long Long Time
by
It has been nineteen weeks since we first started trying to "flatten the curve." How are we doing? Results are mixed.
My Blind Date
by Anonymous
It was just supposed to be with friends, not with a girl I didn’t even know.
A Place For Everything and Everything in its Place
I am a born organizer and record-keeper. That is just who I am. My degree is in Theatre Arts and I wanted to be an actress, [...]
Pecking Order
I was one of five children growing up. Larry was about four years older than I was, Ricky four years younger, and Keith and [...]
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
“May You Live in Interesting Times” As we start our third year of this fearsome pandemic it’s hard to believe we’ve gotten [...]
Traveling Light
Traveling Light For years before leaving on a trip I’d make a list of what to pack:  6 prs underwear,  6 prs stockings/sox, [...]

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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