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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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The Ghost From The Cornfield – How I Stopped Smoking

by Kevin Driscoll

The Ghost From The Cornfield How I Stopped Smoking By Kevin J. W. Driscoll (c) 2025 The flickering TV screen illuminated the [...]

Make ‘Em Laugh

by Betsy Pfau

Over the years I’ve come to appreciate that having a good sense of humor is an essential trait. Several years ago I [...]

Welcome to Splitsville. Population; Me

by Dave Ventre

To my shame, I tried to go along to get along

This Means War!

by mike7353

Perhaps a more accurate name for the game is “Revenge!”

The Club Crashers

by Marian

When does a guest become a crasher? When they either pretend to be a member, or act as if they intend to join the club when [...]

by Betsy Pfau

David took a job with Google DeepMind and moved to London in January, 2015. Google put him up in a two bedroom apartment for [...]

The Soviet Matter

by Charles Degelman

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Sitting by the Window

by Jennifer Swanton Brown

After my first husband left me, I thought I would die of the pain. I was wrong.

by Dave Ventre

One meal, though, stands out because I took pictures.

Our Philip Pearlstein Nude

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Nude on Blue Rug 1970 Our Phillip Pearlstein Nude One weekend many years ago Danny and I visited friends in Pittsburgh and [...]