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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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Pea de Resistance

by Marcia Richmond Liss

by Betsy Pfau

I met her “Becky Thatcher-style”; she was painting the white post fence that separated our properties and I [...]

To Be Continued . . .

by Tom Steenburg

And so it goes.

We called her Pam

by Susan

My church youth group pressed into Pam like clowns into a VW bug.

Reading to My Children

by Betsy Pfau

I loved to read as a child and would often take trips to my local library, the Sherwood Forest branch of the Detroit Public [...]

by Betsy Pfau

(Note: this prompt first came up on July 23, 2018, which is when this story was originally written and published. I have [...]

Walking on Eggshells

by Dave Ventre

Cousin Brucie never seemed angry at anyone.

by Khati Hendry

So proud you are all contributing members of society.

Count Basie and Joe Williams at Birdland, 1956

by Fred Suffet

He [Wiilliams] was a tall, striking man, and he had a distinctive trait when he sang: he didn't make gestures of any kind. [...]

Expats in London: Summer of ’74

by John Zussman

Nixon's address would go down at 3:00 in the morning, London time. But this was history and we were not going to miss it.