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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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Rex

by Ben McKelway

One day back in 1976 a German shepherd came out of nowhere to show up at our kitchen door. He was not emaciated; he looked [...]

Princess Diana style

by Susan

She lived her life in the public eye. And oh, did she look good doing it.

by Betsy Pfau

I must have been around 7 or 8 when I got my first bike, a Schwinn 3 speed with silver fenders and a head light similar to [...]

The Secret to Happiness is to Always Look Forward

by Jeff Gerken

In the final analysis, I am happy.

by Khati Hendry

You never like that stove. You don’t know what it meant.

Easter & Dressing Up for Church

by Jennifer Swanton Brown

Faith takes the form of Easter hats, nursing uniforms, Bach and carrot soup.

The best 4 days of my life

by Woodstock Sally

I was 18 going on 19 my parents didn’t know I was going to Woodstock until they saw the cover of Life Magazine with me [...]

by Betsy Pfau

I come from Detroit. My family was in the automotive industry. My great uncle, Meyer Prentis (Uncle Meyer) was the Treasurer [...]

Hooray for Hollywood

by Suzy

The first time this prompt, “What We Watched,” appeared, I wrote a story about the television shows I loved [...]

My Mom Was a Wonderful Mother, But Her Cooking…?

by Edward Guthmann

My mom was a wonderful mother in many ways – patient, modest, innately kind — but she was not a particularly good cook. [...]