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 Halloween-Industrial Complex
When did Halloween evolve into such a huge deal? I have a hard time remembering much about Halloween from my childhood. [...]
My Favorite Book
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"The king is pregnant." C'mon, what's not to love about that sentence?
9 Frogs
A good childhood in the woods, a crippled frog
Dirty Dishes
Dirty Dishes I have to admit I’m a bit of a neat freak,  and I’ve  always prided myself on being well organized.   Marie [...]
We Dance
We Dance Shintoism has more followers in Japan than any other religion including Buddhism.   A polytheistic and animistic [...]
Through the screen: traveling to murder in comfort
TV is enjoyable when it provides for personable entertainment, reflection. and curiosity. Not when it stirs up meaningless [...]
Two Family Treasures
I probably have other more valuable things that are older than I am, but these are the two I treasure the most.
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 [...]
Walking a Mile in Her Walker
“You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” — American saying, author unknown Part of aging is [...]
American Idol
Really? Says every cultured person I know. You watch THAT show…or, you STILL watch that show? Short answer: yes. My [...]

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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