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 Chair in the Courtyard
The Chair in the Courtyard When I met my friend Rose she’d been a window for several years.  She spoke lovingly about her [...]
On the Road Again
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Bits and pieces of many trips lodged in my memory.
The Puppy Farm
The Puppy Farm I’ve written before about my wonderful childhood puppy  (See Fluffy, or How I Got My Dog and Fluffy and [...]
Please Please Me
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One of the best baby shower presents I received when my first child was born was Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children.
C’est Cheese Retroflash
Won't you please move closer? Now, say, "Cheese"!
Women Authors – An Enduring Passion
I like male writers, too. Dostoyevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' and Melville’s 'Moby-Dick' are huge favorites, and John [...]
Two of Us
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Nobody is coming to our house for Thanksgiving this pandemic year, it's just the two of us.
The Real Story Behind my Parents’ Love Letters
Now that my parents are gone, I realize there were so many questions I wish I had asked them. All I have now are their [...]
The David
Though not an art history major, I’ve loved looking at and learning about art since I was a small child. I tend to be [...]

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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