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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.
Sep 19, 20234 min read
Fall is for egg-rolls.
© Celine Sparks, 2023 We’ve been pretending the autumn equinox has already happened for three weeks. But there’s just something about...
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Aug 31, 20234 min read
Not gonna argue over a penny. Make it two and I can stand here all day.
“It’s the principle of the thing.” That’s what my mother would say when we would beg, “Mom, it’s two cents. Let’s go home.” But she was...
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Aug 9, 20233 min read
Smoky Mountain Breakdown
© Celine Sparks, 2023 It’s happening again. Each year we go to a church-related workshop in Sevierville, Tennessee, and it’s almost time....
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Jul 29, 20233 min read
Back to Drool
© Celine Sparks, 2023 I know this seems ridiculous, but we didn’t have backpacks in school. Oh, we knew about ‘em. The Boy Scouts had...
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Jul 15, 20233 min read
Are they really mad, or are they just acting?
© Celine Sparks, 2023 It’s a swing and a miss, and that’s strike 2! The first strike was the one where the writers in Hollywood decided...
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Jul 6, 20234 min read
Cavemen didn't wear name tags.
© Celine Sparks, 2023 Cavemen didn’t wear name tags. I mean, at least the archaeological digs didn’t show any fossil relics of bones with...
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Jun 15, 20234 min read
"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field."
Well, he sure had me beat to pieces! © Celine Sparks, 2023 They always told us the most important word in VBS was Bible. We’ve been...
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Jun 3, 20234 min read
I wish I could stop stairing.
© Celine Sparks, 2023 It’s what we do about every 18 months. In the late nineties, I was giving birth at this rate. Now I’m loading up...
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May 23, 20233 min read
Mortar Bored
© Celine Sparks, 2023 Believe it or not, there are a limited number of tickets to this thing. But unlike the Taylor Swift concert where...
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May 13, 20234 min read
They call it Mother's Day because the term Frazzled-Shell-of-a-Woman was already taken.
© Celine Sparks, 2023 There are a bunch of mom memories that you want to file away in a heart-shaped box and keep forever. You know,...
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