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David Praamsma

Red House, Blue House

Oct 31

Red House, Blue House

Oct 31

Why Americans are Over the Moon for Underdogs

Like most Americans I am easily inebriated by underdog stories. Give me a few swigs of an unlikely hero story and I’m flushed beyond…

Apr 4

Why Americans are Over the Moon for Underdogs

Apr 4

How Artificial Intelligence is plotting our Eventual Stupidity

Call me old-fashioned, but up until recently “AI” meant nothing more to me than the sound you make at the end of the day when you lay on…

Feb 1

How Artificial Intelligence is plotting our Eventual Stupidity

Feb 1

How to Reinvigorate Unpopular Family Holiday Traditions

This Christmas will mark the 18th year that I have been forcing my kids to make homemade gifts for each other. It has been a source of…

Dec 23, 2023

How to Reinvigorate Unpopular Family Holiday Traditions

Dec 23, 2023

To Tree or Not to Tree

I have a complicated relationship with trees. To me, a big, old, wind-toppled maple tree is both a heartbreaking sight as well as a…

Nov 10, 2023

To Tree or Not to Tree

Nov 10, 2023

Welcome to Vermont: Home of the Garden Zealot!

If there is a role columnists take very seriously it is that of a social watchdog — sounding alarms when troubling trends arrive. In light…

Jun 7, 2023

Welcome to Vermont: Home of the Garden Zealot!

Jun 7, 2023

Why it’s Hard to be Happy about Finland’s “Happiness Streak”

Finland has just been awarded “Happiest Country in the World” for its sixth straight year and while I’m sure they are all marvelously…

May 8, 2023

Why it’s Hard to be Happy about Finland’s “Happiness Streak”

May 8, 2023

In Defense of Sentimentalism

I recently saw a movie called “A Man Called Otto”. It was a shamelessly sentimental film with a predictable storyline, and it reduced me to…

Mar 23, 2023

In Defense of Sentimentalism

Mar 23, 2023

How Frozen Pipes Helped Build My Character While Destroying My Basement

In Vermont it’s advisable to hold your tongue about cold winters until you’ve weathered at least a few good pipe freezings.

Feb 8, 2023

How Frozen Pipes Helped Build My Character While Destroying My Basement

Feb 8, 2023

In Defense of Scandalous Family Christmas Letters

Each Christmas season I experience strange and uncomfortable irony as an English teacher. Come December my wife morphs into a schoolmaster…

Dec 16, 2022

In Defense of Scandalous Family Christmas Letters

Dec 16, 2022

David Praamsma

David Praamsma

English teacher, father and monthly columnist for the Brandon Reporter, a small Vermont rural newspaper. The following are reprints of my monthly contributions.

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