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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The Power of Words
A summer camp counselor realizes the impact he has on his charges.
Booktalker – Remembering Sandra
Booktalker – Remembering Sandra During my working life I put up with a lot of teasing about whether I fit the [...]
An MRI to the Tune of The Beatles
And so ended my MRI trip down memory lane. It would be a long and winding road to repair what time had done to me. Once — as [...]
Self-Control
Close your eyes and think of baseball.
What is “late for school?”
The problem with Jeopardy was that it ended at 12:30 PM
Hello, Darkness
Mom used to joke that I had "the attention span of a gnat."
Bike Trail
Bike Trail The summer we bought our weekend house in a Connecticut community friends invited us to lunch and introduced us to [...]
Yellow Gingham
This prompt brought back powerful memories of a yellow gingham skirt my mother made in the 70s. She and my father took [...]
A Honeymoon Planned by my Mother-in-Law
I’ll always be grateful to my MIL for talking us into what was, back then, a glamorous honeymoon trip rather than spending a [...]
Revising the Editor
Revising the editor Limits, rules, restrictions, guidelines, walls, trigger my auto-response of arising fierce Kali-spirit [...]

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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