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Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive

The Great Knaidel Disaster As you may know a bowl of chicken soup without knaidelach is like a day without sunshine. For the [...]

by Laurie Levy

Looking back, “Ding dong, Avon calling,” was an important stepping stone for my mother to gain confidence in an era in which [...]

by Suzy

My experiences volunteering for Harvard. Word count: 1636. Coincidence? I think not!

Breakfast in Bed Many years ago we spent a spring weekend with friends at their beach house a few hours from the city. That [...]

Sometimes, as in the case of my high school math class, time stopped.

by Laurie Levy

I guess a show that has been on the air for 49 years has to evolve, and each generation has its own concept of what is funny.

Dan seemed to implicitly understand the concept of ethos, which I learned about two to three decades later. It comes from [...]

I want a poem with legs To walk around this great big world, Striding over and into Many places, cultures and times And Into [...]

by Suzy

I must confess that I have never been very interested in science. Conversations on scientific topics tend to make my eyes [...]