Randomly Selected Stories
Show me another set Show today’s randomly selected stories
Somewhere
The unusual opening interval is a minor, ascending 7th. It fills one with aching, longing and sets up the dreamy quality of [...]
Big (50th!) Reunions Spark Big Questions.
Any half-century anniversary sparks big questions. Even once inattentive high school history students are nudged into a [...]
Be It Ever So Humble…
Both my partner and I often express our desires to return home. Each has a different version of home, having been born in [...]
Grampa’s Hands
Grampa’s hands Grampa had sparkly brown eyes that simply shone when he told stories about his postal delivery days, or [...]
Dance Class
As we prepared for bar mitzvah parties in 1964, my mother put me in a local dance class, which met in someone’s [...]
The Myths of Christmas Music
I was crying for what isn’t, for the work and feeling that has gone into the Christmas music for as long there has been [...]
Tradition
Faith, for me, is a complicated topic. As I said in an earlier Retrospect story, I mostly don’t believe in God. But for [...]
Suicide Mission to the Library
There is nothing I love more than reading to young children. I felt like we had fallen into a treasure trove of great [...]
shopping
(everything you buy in your session supports Retrospect)