If you’ve ever met Teresa—and chances are you haven’t, or else you wouldn’t be here trolling on the internet instead of calling us on the phone to catch up—then you’d know that if there’s one thing she likes to do, it’s get under my skin.
And that’s pretty much all she was doing between Salt Lake and Badwater.
So when it came time to take to a staged photo to submit to my 40th reunion’s Where Are They Now guide, when the moment came to show off my 40 years of living well, I told Teresa she couldn’t raise her hands like I was going to.
She cried and cried all over the desert floor. But I think now, to her credit, that her vulnerability that day really made the shot what it is. And without that, it wouldn’t be so much better than the photo Stormy Jenker submitted of himself winning some South Dakota high school coach of the year award.
Just look up and smile, Teresa
