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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Traveling with crazy
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I was always an attentive son,  it was difficult at first to ignore my mom but I eventually got use to it.  I learned to lie.  
Shelters, Signs, and Sirens
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The moaning whine infiltrated my nightmares for years. It became a reminder of a situation we could not ignore.
The Button Box and Other Stuff I Should Toss
My husband has shirts and sweatshirts hanging in this closet that fit into the category of “I thought I had a shirt that I [...]
Rites of Passage
Not that I wasn’t interested in girls; I was desperately interested, and spent many nights agonizing over how to get them to [...]
Street Fighting [Wo]man
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I was seventeen years old and I was ready to learn how to be a revolutionary.
Alcohol Wimp
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While others around me seemed bright, relaxed, and happy, I became dull, sleepy, and sad ... And, I could tell, very clearly, [...]
The Little MG That Couldn’t
Sally gallantly offered that I could take the MG, but I wouldn’t consider it—far too untrustworthy to risk taking over the bridge.
A Horse With No Name
I don't know the name of the horse.
My First Retirement Didn’t Work Out Too well
I tried retirement once, and it didn't hold. Maybe the second will be more successful?
Who’s Yer Daddy?
“I know what you’re going to tell me.  Everyone in Logan has known about it for years.”

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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