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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.


There's Gotta Be a Better Word for this than Glad.
It seems to me we have come a long way in advancing a lot of things for world leaders and soccer moms. The problem of getting tangled up...
May 244 min read
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Signs of Early Senility
There was only one. You know, it was something about serenity to change things and not change things, and the wisdom to know how to spell...
May 113 min read
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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...
Apr 243 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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