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The Barefoot Preacher's Wife
Check here for the most recent humor columns by Celine Sparks.
Other columns can be found mixed in with her Biblically-based books: Because I Said So; Whatever Happened to Fried Chicken?; How to Train Your Dragon; and If Mama Ain't Happy.
Shoot first, and fix the bowtie later.
© Celine Sparks, 2025 There’s a reason I am not doing the ChatGPT roast. I’m just a little bit jealous that I can stay up all night...
3 days ago3 min read
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Dead tired. Without the tired part.
Celine Sparks, 2025 I’m tired. Like the bonafide deep tired you can’t get just from a long tech rehearsal or a Richard Simmons workout...
Apr 73 min read
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See Sally run. Barely.
Three is a magic number. If you’re old enough that you could never commit to which Bobby you had a bigger crush on – Brady, Sherman, or...
Mar 135 min read
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Henny Penny and the Egg Crisis
Storm the henhouse! These left-wing chickens are refusing to lay enough eggs to fill the styrofoam carton, and as a result, we’re gonna...
Feb 43 min read
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Drop Everything!
I should have seen it coming. There has been a militant group plotting for years how to make cough drops taste worse, and they have been...
Jan 243 min read
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Resolution: A little more attention to where I step in the mall
Nothing takes the Happy out of New Year like a good old-fashioned resolution. Most of them have something to do with eating less Reese...
Jan 14 min read
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With every Christmas card I write
I can answer that. What’s the greatest challenge in raising a large family in our society? Some have said that it’s providing physical...
Dec 16, 20244 min read
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Thankful . . . That I Deleted the Calorie App
Here we go again! Throw a brown shawl over the table, light the rust-colored candles, unbox the china, and bring out all the food we...
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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The Great Comeback of 2024!
The joke’s on us. We didn’t think it was good. We just ate it because sometimes we had to. If the cupboard was bare, we could always...
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Hay, Hay, we're the Monkeys! And Clowns and Triangle Hypotenuses.
This week we will reexamine our choices. We will cast our vote for the lesser of two evils. And the hayride will win. It’s either that or...
Oct 29, 20244 min read
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