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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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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.

Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

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My E.R. Hangout

by Richard C. Kagan

Doctors and patients: the body politic.

by Khati Hendry

We asked what they needed most and they requested a transportation vehicle. Not an ambulance—that would be too much of a target.

by Jim Willis

We get reminders about hanging onto the past from ballads as well as memoirs.

Attracted to Anarchy

by Marian

While we ate tuna fish and Soupy hawked Jello, all kinds of chaos would happen.

Why I Can’t Sleep or Once Upon a Mattress

by Laurie Levy

I have a long history of poor sleep. When I was still working, a colleague and I used to joke that we should have called one [...]

by Suzy

"You have cataracts, and you should have surgery as soon as possible." I was stunned. Only old people have cataracts, I thought.

Aunt Babs and Uncle Paul

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Aunt Babs and Uncle Paul I’ve written about all my aunts and uncles before. (See Call Me by Their Names) Here’s more about my [...]

Change the world; it needs it.

by Charles Degelman

Turn your skills, your craft, your art into a weapon.

by Marian

This is my first memory, and is it accurate? I believe it is, especially now that I have a lot of context around it.

Blinded by the Light

by Suzy

I must confess that I have never been very interested in science. Conversations on scientific topics tend to make my eyes [...]