Things about Larry:

• Loves re-enacting the bad guy in mobster movie scenes

• Best friend Leo is a Catholic priest

• Says things like, “Where’s it at?” that sound odd to the English majors in his life

• Earned a free trip for two to Europe TWICE by selling the most MFA memberships

• Wore a purple fanny pack while touring Europe

• First Houston residence was the 5401 Chimney Rock apartments where he enjoyed a very full social life that included dancing six nights a week for 11 years

• Stopped drinking “pop” in 1984 in a one-year bet with his friends that has lasted to this day

• Insists that a sandbag workout is the only way to go

• Has the lowest blood pressure reading of anyone around

• Convinced his parents to enroll him in a Catholic elementary school so he could pursue his first-grade crush, Joan

• Is a first born (shocking) and insists he had to be VERY outspoken to be heard growing up in his Sicilian family

• He and his boyhood friends enjoyed free rides by hopping on and off moving trains

• Learned the laws of physics in seventh grade when he hitched a steep downhill ride standing on a neighborhood boy’s big-wheel, bailing out midway and dislocating his left elbow

• Earned his business information systems degree at U. of Nebraska, Omaha while shining as a waiter, restaurant manager and cook

• Given his culinary skills should open his own “Lorenzo’s”

• Worked as a systems analyst at Enron in Omaha, transferring in 1986 to Houston - left Enron in 1997 before it collapsed (avoiding his own financial collapse)

• Earned his executive MBA at Houston Baptist while working at Enron

• Went plant-based in 2017 after meeting Nancy, lost 33 pounds and reduced his cholesterol count by 120 in six months

• Met his idol Carl Sagan while browsing books at a Houston bookstore