Jon Ravenholt:  

Life Well, Here's the short & long of it: I've finally grown up! I began my life in Boulder City, NV (i.e.Mayberry) in 1965 as the fourth child of Otto & Marie. I got to live in a big brick house at the top of town. I was a bit of an outsider, but I still think that my most memorable connections lie with those I went through my early years with. It was a simpler time. My folks divorced when I was 13(along with most of my hometown, it seems). This led to several high schools(Clark High in Las Vegas, NV & Sandpoint High in Sandpoint, ID), as well as my education as a drinker & substance user. I managed to keep it "under control" enough to graduate high school. I guess I was good at partying because I managed to get through a 4 year Theatre Arts degree at UNLV in Las Vegas without too much grief. I was/am a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and I held positions of Chaplain(2 years), Secretary(1 year), and House manager. Talk about king of the party, try running a frat house. I got my degree and then I had to go into the real world. I found that I feared failure; then I found that I also feared success. I did what any good party monster would do, I found an all-consuming addiction, and buried my head(life?!?) in the sand of self-indulgence. My drug of choice became Methamphetamine and I pursued it with my all for the next 15 years. Many of the months and years were spent in various jails and I even did some prison time(over 4 years!) in Idaho. I tried to think of myself as a "good" drug addict; not a thief, or user of people/women, etc. It was a weird combination. I tried to live up to the honor code of my fraternity while walking through a dark world of addiction. More often than not, this led to me being the target of the more vicious element of the drug world and once again I felt like an outsider in the world I was in. My prison sentence was 1-5 years for possession of $20 of Meth. It really relates to a sentence for manufacturing that they couldn't p...Expand for more