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Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

by Laurie Levy

This is so not the world I had hoped to leave for my grandkids. It’s definitely time for a new generation to take over.

I smelled the rubbery stink of an overheated engine.

by Betsy Pfau

I am so glad I am not in middle school and no longer have to deal with cliques and mean girls. Thank goodness I grew up and [...]

by Betsy Pfau

Being a somewhat sickly kid, I had been out with the flu the day my class took the Iowa Achievement Test in 4th grade, so on [...]

by Dave Ventre

I remember her funeral

by Laurie Levy

It was also the night I committed the most anti-feminist act ever. I came with Paula but left with Fred.

by Lou Moffett

I could no longer feel my cold hands and had to visually place them on holds.

by Dave Ventre

Like any kid, I banged back and forth among various “what do I want to be when I grow up?” fantasies.

by Khati Hendry

Meals were a challenge when I was a resident on hospital rotations. There were no official breaks, no lunch, dinner, or [...]

Moving Day Blues I haven’t moved very often in my life, in fact for the past 40 years we’ve lived in Manhattan in the same “7 [...]