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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Can’t Cut That Last Cord
I have cut lots of cords in my lifetime as technology changed, but I’m still afraid to let go of that last cord that enables [...]
Roger
Roger and my husband grew up in Newton, MA. They knew each other slightly in high school, playing on opposing local [...]
Traveling Abroad with Kids
I wondered if they would have been just as happy going to a resort near home that had a pool.
Don’t Get Around Much Any More
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Alternative song title (courtesy of The Police): Don't Stand So Close To Me
I lost to a girl!
How multi-generational Worths lost their Spelling Bees!
I’ve Got A Secret
This time I'll let the clip tell the story...if you're old enough, you'll likely get a kick out of  it.
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 [...]
A Date at Eight
I’m sure we thought we were terribly grown up, going on a date and all. Did my mother make me wear gloves? She may have.
We Can Work It Out
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Sometimes you can work it out, sometimes you can’t. I’ve had a lot of roommates, starting as a 17-year-old [...]
Unkie
    Unkie (Aunts and Uncles) My uncle was a sailor in the war. I called him Unkie. My earliest memories of him had [...]

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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