Story Extras
Delve deeper into the world of Sparkle Stories with Story Extras. From character spotlights to cheat sheets, story calendars, and more, uncover bonus content and behind-the-scenes insights to enhance your storytelling experience.
Meet Martin & Sylvia!
We've gathered some fun facts about Martin and Sylvia to help your get to know them a little better.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Weathering the Storm"
Our Dry Gables friends show us how to live in community with compassion, gratitude, and love.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "For the People"
In this post, we are focusing on the story “For the People.” Below you will see how the three main characters illustrate three unique ways to live in community.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - “This is Our Moment”
The stories in this collection, Dry Gables: Good Neighbors, give us insights into how we resolve conflict and strive to get our needs met — and what we do when they are not met.
Sparkle Weekly Wondering: Dry Gables - Good Neighbors
Today we launch a third Dry Gables collection: “Good Neighbors.”
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Get It Done!"
The Enneagram is a complex and meaningful model of human personality. It offers us a road map in helping us to identify who we are at our best and what blocks us from a place of happiness and greater ease. Here we explore it through one of our own Sparkle Stories collections.
Dry Gables: The Stories and How to Use Them
Dry Gables is a unique series of stories centered around the people who live and work in a Victorian era small town in South Dakota. Each of the nine characters embodies a way of being in the world — with unique behaviors, motivations, and fears.
FIFTY Study Page: West Virginia "Follow Your Own Noon"
This story from the FIFTY collection uses historical fiction to explore the history of Coal and Electric Power in the Appalachian part of the country.
May Tips for Creating a Day of Rest
The carpe diem spirit that comes with the spring can be a glorious thing, full of possibility and joy and long-awaited plans. But with it can also be found a shadow side of stinginess, a desperate clinging to the opportunities that come with fine weather and a determination to pursue one’s own vision of a perfect spring day at all costs.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "All In"
Greetings, Sparkle Friends! Glad you are here to get comfortable with me while we spend some time with Dry Gables’ baker, Marta Bauer.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Whatever the Power I Have"
Greetings Sparkle Friends! Pull up a chair, stoke the irons of your fire and come spend some time with Dry Gable’s blacksmith and chief protector, Johann Bauer.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "When Wide is Not Enough"
Hello, Sparklers! If you are anything like Jane Mayer, you hardly have a moment to quiet yourself to read this! As you know, when we are like Jane, we can hardly sit still, there's so much to do and so much to explore, and we have all of the reserves of enthusiasm to do it all!
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "What Nothing Can Bring"
Hello, Sparklers! Please, pull up a chair and do nothing productive with Lena Denken and me! Doing nothing productive isn’t so easy for folks like Lena and me, but deep down, we know that sometimes, doing nothing is the most productive thing we can do!
Tips for Creating Your Own Family Day of Rest
Start your own family day of rest for the new year! The main idea is to create a special day to slow down, spend time together, and recharge.
Why Twelve Days of Christmas?
Looking for a 12 days of Christmas story? Read about the inspiration and traditions behind our original audio stories created for this season.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "On Your Feet"
Hello, Sparkle Grownups! Nice for you to join me as we to get to know Max Denken, Dry Gables’ newspaper man. Our friend, Max can be a little harder to understand, so let’s get right to it!
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Get Your Ducks in a Row"
Clang! Clang! Clang! The school bell is ringing, and we don’t want to be late for our Dry Gables’ school teacher, Mr. Seamus O’Conner.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "Something Greater Than Myself"
Nice of you to join us, Sparkle Grownups, for a Meet & Greet with Dry Gables’ very own town mayor, EB Herz.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "As I Truly Am"
Hello again, Sparkle Friends! Nice to be with you and our nurse and healer of Dry Gables, Liesl Herz.
Exploring the Dry Gables Series - "A Great Burden is Lifted"
The stories from the two "Dry Gables" Series include an accompanying post from the Sparkle Schoolhouse Educator, Meredith Markow. In this post we cover our good friend, Wilhelm Bauer, Dry Gables’ Carpenter and Town Planner.
