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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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Periodo Especial

by Charles Degelman

Doing original theater is very different from dredging up the old chestnuts. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do but laugh.

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Revelations Fame well deserved came to a young African American choreographer one night in 1960 when he premiered a new work [...]

by Ben McKelway

A summer love affair with a flimsy VW camper-bus.

Island Style by Peter Merriman

by Retrospect Team

I started cooking because I was hungry. In fact, I'm still hungry—all the time.

Too Old for SNL Now

by Laurie Levy

I guess a show that has been on the air for 49 years has to evolve, and each generation has its own concept of what is funny.

A Tale of Two Hitchhikes

by muzziesgirl

I confess to hitchhiking once. I don’t think my parents ever knew.

A Memorable Birthday

by Dave Ventre

My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun.

A Garden of Visual Delights

by Marian

I resorted to wearing sunglasses and a painter's mask to do any gardening, even trimming the lemon tree. Upon seeing me, my [...]

Hack: Advice from my AI Bot Buddy Hal

by Kevin Driscoll

Here is some good advice(s) from my AI Bot Buddy … Hal … Getting hacked is a serious problem that can have [...]

Family of Friends

by John Zussman

We were as close as family without the drama or angst.