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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Black Ice
After two warm days, January 18, 2001 was cold and sunny, prompting everything that had previously melted to freeze again. I [...]
Diversity, it’s on Tap
Diversity,  It’s on Tap On Nov 19, 2022 a 45 year old Army vet named Richard Fierro was with his wife Jessica,  their [...]
The Family Dinner Bites the Dust
These days, the concept of a family dinner has bitten the dust. My grandkids graze rather than sitting down as a family to eat.
But No One Can See Your Eyes
My mom owned her own business. She had a beauty shop in the front of our house, complete with the stations with the big [...]
Our Special Guests
Our Special Guests My loyal readers may remember that I spent happy childhood summers at my grandmother’s small hotel in the [...]
Anne
Anne She was a quiet girl, soft of face soft of movement, and her long brown hair often curtained her eyes so as to be soft [...]
A Night to Remember
My first date was not what I'd expected.
The First Shall be Last
There is something liberating about a “date” when, from the outset, both know that there can be no future.
A Study Abroad Created a Community
Allons! the road is before us! It is safe–I have tried it–my own feet have tried it well–be not detain'd! Let the paper [...]
Desultory Ruminations on Procrastination
Random thoughts on why I’m a procrastinator.

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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