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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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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.

Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

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by Betsy Pfau

The Brandeis Theatre Department hired a new scenic painter in 1973. In addition to painting all the backdrops, he also taught [...]

Chocolate Angel Pie

by Kathy Porter

It's delicious, no matter what you call it.

by Betsy Pfau

What is faith? I struggle with the concept. We were minimally Jewish, attending services sporadically, though my brother and [...]

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Boycott As a child I don’t remember questioning the authority of my teachers, I loved school and remember no run-ins there. [...]

How to Use a Drill

by Laurie Levy

Now, I remember why I hate Ikea.

by Laurie Levy

I have no memory of learning to ride an actual bike.

Busting a Banned-Book Barbecue

by Charles Degelman

It was a cool gig, for sure.

by Dave Ventre

All of this is absolutely true...

I Must Go Down To The Lake Again

by Dave Ventre

It's a challenging, exhilarating drive that cries out to be done fast in a small nimble open-top rear-wheel-drive sports car, [...]

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 [...]