Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Ok, Boomer
Young people are using the phrase OK, boomer to indicate disdain for folks of my generation.
So, What Happened to The Overland Trail?
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the [...]
A bumpy section of the journey
In the end, she decided she didn’t want to break up the family, and returned, telling my father never to mention the idea of [...]
Modern Primitives from the gay 90’s
In San Francisco in the early 90’s it seemed like everyone from lawyers to street punks was getting pierced and tattooed. [...]
2020 in 3 acts
1 Somehow I landed pet sitting/housesitting gig On my river Sweetest of elder dogs A [...]
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into [...]
Chestertown Follies
There were songs for the sisters, the grandchildren, the in-laws, and the whole “cast”. We thought they were pretty clever.
Take the Best, Discard the Rest
Remember the old movie, “The Crying Game”, where one of the lead characters passes as a different gender until [...]
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