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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Kitchen Musical Theater
I guess I ended up with the wrong set of genes for my theatrical fantasies, but I’m really enjoying watching my granddaughter [...]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Professor watches amazed as 16 students disappear into broadband stream
A Mixed Bag of Tech Then and Now
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Our phone number was CE9-2609. CE stood for the Center exchange. No area code.
No Way to Say Goodbye, part three
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As an adult, I have given public final farewells for three important people in my life: my father, my mother, and my ex-husband.
Stowaways: Clyde, me, and the CHP
He nodded the beak of his perfectly molded, authoritarian-style trooper’s hat in my direction.
Triumph Over My Arch Nemeses
I was never really satisfied, but basically gave up on achieving the ideal arch I'd been searching for most of my life. I [...]
Long Long Time
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It has been nineteen weeks since we first started trying to "flatten the curve." How are we doing? Results are mixed.
Sitting by the Window
After my first husband left me, I thought I would die of the pain. I was wrong.
The Times They Are A-Changin
That is what I thought of with the Retrospect Topic ‘Changing Times’ – not the clocks to be moved forward [...]
Callie Hollingshead’s Door Prize Quilt and It’s Fate
A church door prize quilt from the 1950s gets a new life in the 1990s.

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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