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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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When Frightening Dreams Come True

by Laurie Levy

My worst dreams have become a reality as we struggle through these endless days of #stayathome.

by Risa Nye

Her name is Rockie, but don’t take her for granite. One of her jokes. Her given name is Rokama. According to several [...]

by Charles Degelman

My head snapped back and hit the wooden booth.

by Betsy Pfau

Patti and John Zussman are among my oldest and dearest friends. So I was pleased and honored when they contacted me, nearly [...]

One piece at a time … then freedom

by Jim Willis

Ivo Zdarsky wasn't just building a plane. He was building an escape to freedom.

by Laurie Levy

Young people are using the phrase OK, boomer to indicate disdain for folks of my generation.

by Khati Hendry

We were looking for somewhere to buy a boom box to play CD music for our elopement ceremony in Niagara Falls, and someone [...]

by Khati Hendry

You never like that stove. You don’t know what it meant.

First Grade, First Day

by Gillian Kendall

No one had prepared me for a darkened classroom.

Kitchen Musical Theater

by Laurie Levy

I guess I ended up with the wrong set of genes for my theatrical fantasies, but I’m really enjoying watching my granddaughter [...]