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 Randomly Selected Stories

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Muppets as Musical Influence
The magic of Jim Henson's creations affected my composing style in many ways!
Gluttonous for glory–spelling glory, that is!
Floating somewhere unknown, however, was the fateful word gluttony, gearing up to topple me at some future moment when I [...]
New Year in Nara
From my files: A Japanese ritual: emotion, laughter, love and union.
Derby Evening, 2017
David visited from London at the end of the summer, 2017. A large storm brewed off sea. It didn’t affect our weather, [...]
This Story Is Not About Cooking
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This story may or may not turn out to be about cooking. Mainly it is about my mother, who, as I write, is lying in a hospital [...]
Someone New to Camping asked for Advice
>If you are going car camping it’s really easy because weight is not an issue. Here’s where convenience comes [...]
Outside Agitators — showbiz goes to the demo
Mao Tse Tung, Uncle Ho / Dow chemical has got to go
Slow Down… Things are Much Better IRL
More than one (older) person I know has reflected on the shortened time-frame that we all take for granted today.  We get [...]
Kindness of Strangers
We had a whole ten days off, a fiftieth birthday to celebrate, a new telescope to try out, and a good grasp of Spanish.  A [...]

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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