Barbara Dahlgren is a former newspaper columnist and presently a humorist, speaker, and freelance writer whose articles have appeared around the world. Born in the foothills of the Ozarks and reared in St. Louis, Barbara met and married her husband at college in Texas. for the past fifty years, they have pastored churches in Florida, West Virginia, Kentucky, Washington, Michigan, and California. Barbara's personal philosophy is to take her Christian calling but not herself too seriously.