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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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Covidream 3.2 — Circles

by Charles Degelman

We each float at the center of a separate, outwardly radiating helix.

by Betsy Pfau

My mother always had a wonderful sense of rhythm and a great ability to move her body to the beat of the music. I inherited [...]

Brown [Haired] Girl

by Kathy Porter

There are a few privileges of getting old. Maybe gray hair is one of them.

Princess Diana style

by Susan

She lived her life in the public eye. And oh, did she look good doing it.

Listen, Learn, Change

by Betsy Pfau

I have watched the coverage over the past several weeks with fury and outrage. I don’t take to the streets for many [...]

by Jeff Gerken

That really impressed the neighbors!

Movies That Made a Difference

by Betsy Pfau

I tend to love romantic movies; big sweeping costume dramas, though occasionally go for thoughtful dramas. It is difficult [...]

Moving Day Blues

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Moving Day Blues I haven’t moved very often in my life, in fact for the past 40 years we’ve lived in Manhattan in the same “7 [...]

The Two Sisters of Antofagasta

by Charles Degelman

Antofagasta is a northern port city in Chile.

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. [...]