https://strictlyforbuckets.com/blog/ Recent content in Home on Aaron Blackshear Hugo en-US Copyright © 2025, Aaron Blackshear Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://strictlyforbuckets.com/blog/posts/marvin/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://strictlyforbuckets.com/blog/posts/marvin/ <h1 id="marvin-blackshear">Marvin Blackshear</h1> <p>It was the only time I&rsquo;d ever seen my father cry.</p> <p>January 1994, St. Luke&rsquo;s Hospital in Racine, WI, third floor mental health unit. A month or so before, I&rsquo;d started a fire at school and not taken it very seriously when they interrogated me. A game of telephone started, and I quickly found myself involuntarily committed. Six weeks of intense inpatient treatment, alongside a motley collection of troubled kids ranging from age six to seventeen. Some of them had severe mental health problems, others were simply in the court system but hadn&rsquo;t yet done anything bad enough to get sent to juvenile detention. Inpatient care for &ldquo;behavioral problems&rdquo; was a first step towards that more serious outcome.</p>