Larry Cantu

Not yet.

My twins turned 15 years old in 2024. So my grandkids are, at best, still just the faintest gleam in my kids’ eyes (or so I hope)!

What have I been up to since 1970?

For the most part, these matters are best kept strictly between my confessor and me, but apart from that ...

1970-1975: college and grad school (UT Austin)
1975-1977: employed at University of Texas, Austin
1977-1980: law school, UT Austin
1980-2018: employed as an attorney for "Big Oil". About half of my career was spent living outside the USA, mostly in Indonesia but including a few years in England, Singapore and Angola.
2018-2022: mostly retired; watched a lot of Weather Channel
2022-present: retired from retirement and got back in the saddle by joining a newly established law firm. I should have done this a couple of years ago!

I've been married from time to time.

In 2009 my wife, Rahmawati, gave birth to twins, Rachel and Rafael. Ever since then I have been thanking my lucky stars that life is so wonderfully unfair because, after the way I behaved prior to 2009, there is no way I deserve the wonderful family I have now.

2024: We traveled to the Texas Hill Country to view the total eclipse on April 8. Despite more cloud over than we expected, we had some good breaks in the clouds at critical moments and got some excellent photos.

2024: Our twins are now in their second year in the "Academy" in their high school. It is an accelerated high school program in which they can also earn college credits. So far, so good. They are both continuing to make straight A's and neither of them has come home insisting on getting a tattoo.

Did I ever go to school?

I do recall once saying to a classmate whose mammalian characteristics I found particularly intriguing that "my DNA would love to party with your DNA."

My left ear rang and my face smarted for about 3 hours after that.

I interpreted her response as "no, thank you."

I hid out in college until I got tired of being destitute all the time, then I graduated and went to work.

Although I could rattle off lots of musicians, bands and singers who were popular when I was in high school or in college, at this point in my life I would struggle to list 3 currently performing bands, musicians or singers.