A Couple Living into Their Seventies

Denise Estey Lindquist
Mercury Press
Published in
4 min readApr 30, 2024

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He and me are the sweeties.

Photo by Harli Marten on Unsplash

My hubby asked me how many days have 30 days in the year. Then he said, I believe there is a saying but I can’t remember it. I told him that is what I remember too. Then he looked at the calendar and said there are 31 days in this month.

The very next day I said so is tomorrow the 31st or the 1st. This is how our conversations work in our 70s. I…

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Denise Estey Lindquist
Mercury Press

Married, 7 children, 27 grand & 12 great. I am a part-time culture consultant. I write with Vocal, Medium, NaNoWriMo, and Facebook, A Poem A Day In February