Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Yin and Yang
Freshman year spring term. As Dickens opened A Tale of Two Cities, the best of times and the worst of times. The best [...]
Suitcases without wheels
Why did it take so long for someone to come up with the idea of putting wheels on suitcases? I can remember so many trips, [...]
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 [...]
Val-de-ree, Val-de-ra
I’m sure you would not guess it, if you guessed a long, long while, so I’ll take it out and put it on—it’s a great big [...]
Me, I’ve Lived in Dreams
Dreams may not be real, but sometimes they can help get us through heartache. And sometimes they can even come true.
What Are You Going to Be?
As kids, we started thinking about the next Halloween on November first. Over the next several months, ideas were floated, [...]
Remembering
I still remember my first day in college. My dad came to drop me at bus stop and as soon as we saw our bus with the [...]
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