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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The Hair of the Prophet
The Muslim staff that worked in our house protected the gardener and his Hindu family, temporary refugees in their own land.
There is No Planet B
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If only the fiftieth anniversary remembrances could restore the initial perceptions that the first ventures into space evoked.
With a Little Help From My Friends
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Summer 1967 It’s the Summer of Love in San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Meanwhile, across the [...]
A Hat for All Seasons
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We all dressed carefully, and most of us wore hats. We had a lovely time, and the hats in many styles and colors added to the [...]
The Sharing Tree
I hope the preschoolers we taught remember that charity begins in our hearts and in the way we treat one another.
Don’t Touch My Hair
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Even though the hairdresser at Best's gave me a terrible haircut, the trauma may not have been entirely her fault.
Immeasurable, incomprehensible
Like matter, gravitational energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
In the Slush
Lesson for readers: Try not to get married in January.
Treasure Room
David took a job with Google DeepMind and moved to London in January, 2015. Google put him up in a two bedroom apartment for [...]
Behold It Is the Springtide of the Year
“Behold it is the Springtide of the year. Over and past is Winter’s gloomy reign. The happy time of singing birds [...]

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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