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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.
Over a barrel
I was crackers before Cracker Barrel was cool. I grew up with my parents dragging me out of bed on Saturday and driving to the outskirts...
Aug 26, 20253 min read
I meant to do that
We stand in the brokenness, and sob, “I never meant to do this." It’s where sin lands us. But while we say, “I didn’t mean to,” Jesus...
Aug 11, 20253 min read
Meshach, Shadrach, and My First-World Problems
© Celine Sparks, 2025 Someone wrote a song about it, and there’s been reverb from it in our conversations for the past year or so. Even...
Jul 12, 20255 min read
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 24, 20254 min read
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 11, 20253 min read
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 24, 20253 min read
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 7, 20253 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...
Mar 13, 20255 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...
Feb 4, 20253 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...
Jan 24, 20253 min read
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