Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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May-hem birthdays
Starting in 2020, birthdays have been correlated with horrible incidents for no apparent reason.
Humanity’s Laugh Track Since Before Punchlines Were Invented
Ah, comedy. The universal language of amusement, the oil that keeps the gears of social interaction turning smoothly (except [...]
Myopic With a Side of Astigmatism
I began wearing glasses at the age of 8. I couldn’t read the board clearly and knew something was amiss. I had become [...]
Tennis Woes
Tennis Woes I’ve written recently about my pickleball addiction and also about my long, and rather lackluster tennis career [...]
Dress Rehearsals for Life
Good films can imitate life so well that we can discern and assess the values they convey.
A Timeline of Life
My wife once read, in what I hope was not People magazine, that our bodies go through a major metabolic change about every [...]
Secret Family Recipe
Perhaps because he was the youngest of eight, raised by an older sister once his mother was institutionalized when he was 12, [...]
Most Lost Eyeglasses Are Found
“Thank you, doctor,” I said via my own expressive raised eyebrow, accented by genuflection. I went back outside.
Lost and Found. And Lost and Found. And . . . .
And then, I realized that a lens had fallen out. Jeez. While I was riding on the back of an open truck traveling at 65 [...]
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