Snake Bloomstrand explores the cost of emotional armor and how to become whole.
I Dare You Scaredy-Cats
Cruel, mean-spirited behavior wears a thousand faces. Do you speak out?
Cruel, mean-spirited behavior wears a thousand faces. Do you speak out?
The Blue Flame of Anger
Anger fuels the ability to endure hurt, accept loss with grace and face fear with courage. It is not as much of an explosion as it is a blue flickering flame men can harness.
Anger fuels the ability to endure hurt, accept loss with grace and face fear with courage. It is not as much of an explosion as it is a blue flickering flame men can harness.
The Time Stamp
Snake Bloomstrand knows he won't live forever. This is how he sees it
Snake Bloomstrand knows he won’t live forever. This is how he sees it.
PTSD: ‘After multiple combat deployments I had no idea what I felt.’
Post Traumatic Shock is a healthy response to extraordinary circumstance.
Post Traumatic Shock is a healthy response to extraordinary circumstance.
Boys, Accuracy, and Toilet Training
Men have a long standing history with accuracy and the tools with which we’re given. Snake Bloomstrand thinks it’s time for me to step up their toilet training game. — It’s time for men to step up. The accuracy of 21st-century masculinity demands that men no longer abdicate their unique role and responsibility in the…
Immigrant Christmas
My earliest Christmas memories were formed in this large old room surrounded by old men wearing wide ties and their stoic grey haired wives.
Rage
It only takes a moment for things to change.
Did You Cry When He Left?
Snake Bloomstrand on rituals that make a boy into a man.
Snake Bloomstrand, on rituals that make a boy into a man.
What to Do With Emotional Vampires
Snake Bloomstrand shows you how to spot and how to handle energy suckers.
We Can Be Cowboy Heroes
Gather around the campfire as Snake Bloomstrand reminds us that some old-fashioned cowboy heroism can help us run today’s black hats out of town.
The Power of the Fish Bat
Snake Bloomstrand recalls his final exchange with a dying friend and the whopper of a tale about the no-strike-out bat.
Snake Bloomstrand recalls his final exchange with a dying friend and the whopper of a tale about the no-strike-out bat.
Waking Up to Find the Relational Rules Have Changed
Snake Bloomstrand tries his best to explain the new playbook of gender relations to a man released from prison after 35 years.
Snake Bloomstrand tries his best to explain the new playbook of gender relations to a man released for prison after 35 years.
Dumb boy face
Mastered in childhood and carried into adulthood, the dumb boy face is a pernicious mask handy for avoiding accountability, writes Craig Bloomstrand.
A Surprising Job Offer from Mother Teresa
Snake Bloomstrand relates how Mother Teresa opened the eyes and heart of Father Bennie.