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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.
Mar 135 min read
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...
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Feb 43 min read
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...
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Jan 243 min read
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...
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Jan 14 min read
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...
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Dec 16, 20244 min read
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...
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Nov 26, 20244 min read
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...
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Nov 17, 20242 min read
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...
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Oct 29, 20244 min read
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...
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Oct 15, 20243 min read
Don't feed it; you'll have to keep it.
My brother went to Florida with Uncle Click, and I had to feed his chickens while he was gone. I was scared of them, but he was paying me...
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Sep 25, 20243 min read
Hear, hear! (Or at least get it close.)
I was nowhere near ready. But when Dad was ready to go to the Waffle House, not much got in his way. I think you could have put the set...
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