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 Stories from the Retrospect Archive

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Outside Agitators — showbiz goes to the demo
Mao Tse Tung, Uncle Ho / Dow chemical has got to go
Try To Remember
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302 stories. Seven years. Probably thousands of comments on other people's stories and replies to their comments on mine.
We Love Movies
We see lots of movies throughout the year; this year we even attended three film festivals, though many of those films tend [...]
From House Calls to No Calls
All of this makes me long for the days when most health care was affordable and doctors were reachable by simply calling [...]
Getting Lost
Getting Lost I must admit I have a poor sense of direction,  but luckily my husband has a very good one,  and he seldom gets [...]
Reading to Bill
The words rolled lyrically off my lips. Each sentence had a rhythm, a cadence.
Dad’s 50th Birthday
We moved from Detroit to our newly-built home in Huntington Woods (about 2 1/2 miles northwest of our Detroit location) on [...]
Peace be with you
In September 2001 I lived in a country setting below converging flight paths into Boston. On the twelfth I went out to lie in [...]
Don’t Obey in Advance
I felt uncomfortable packing the book and uncomfortable leaving it behind.
What I Didn’t Tell You Then
How could I respond “I love you”? You always ended every conversation “I love you…”, waiting [...]

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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