Sparkle Stories Blog

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.

In this post we'll acquaint you with the character Wilhelm Bauer. The Bauers want their autonomy, and they like things to be just so.

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.

Greetings, Sparkle Friends! Glad you are here to get comfortable with me while we spend some time with Dry Gables’ baker, Marta Bauer.

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.

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!

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.

Our Dry Gables friends show us how to live in community with compassion, gratitude, and love.

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!

Nice of you to join us, Sparkle Grownups, for a Meet & Greet with Dry Gables’ very own town mayor, EB Herz.