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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There’s Something Happening Here (?)
Visit the brand new transfer station, spanking clean. Return home and excitedly relate the news. "You're raving about a [...]
The Good Books
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Little by little, I’m thinning out my collection of books. Only books I have loved and respected can stay. It [...]
The song(? ) remembers when
When the dial-up age of the Internet morphed into the Wi-Fi age, most of us breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The Blob
In the universe of trauma, it seems pretty trivial to describe a childhood horror movie.  Looking back now, it is hard to [...]
A Chocolate Obsession
Ramblings of a chocolate fanatic
Lamp Man Day
It is Monday, October 2, 1978. As I wait for my flight to Pittsburgh, I watch Bucky Dent break the hearts of thousands of [...]
One Day on Broadway
Later, she claimed that while she remembered being on Broadway, she had no idea why she had suddenly felt disconnected and [...]
Let’s Give ’em Something to Talk About
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We didn't think too much of it; at least, I didn't think much of it until ...
What is my purpose ? where am I going ?
You won't believe it no one does

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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