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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Surviving a Workplace Bully
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I gasped when I realized that I was the perfect target for a workplace bully--a textbook case.
I Chickened Out !
Yep I the first time I went down to the convention center in San Fransisco, looked at the crowd then said ‘Heck [...]
Kodachrome
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I do not relate to the idea that group photos are no longer in vogue. For me they are a constant in my life!
The Shelf Life of Eggs
...notwithstanding any other food fear, sentiment, fixation, longing, dream, taboo, burp, or memory I may have or ever had, [...]
Meant For Our Eyes Only
I stood there in the heavy underbrush with tears in my eyes and a broken heart....
Highway to Hell
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How is the Ku Klux Klan still a thing? In old movies we see those white-sheeted ridiculous-looking figures riding on [...]
Lucky dog retro flash
When I started thinking about this prompt, I started a list of all the reasons I had to be grateful, and soon found there was [...]
Gong Ceremony
It was our friend Jack who recommended Aidan to us. We needed someone to paint the house interior, and he assured us that [...]
West Side Story
West Side Story One wintry afternoon feeling chilled I stopped at an Upper West Side cafe.  I asked for a cup of tea and [...]
Fifteen Miles to 14A
It was a June night of thunderstorms in central New Jersey

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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