Sparkle Stories Blog

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.

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.

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 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.

This tutorial accompanies the the fourth story in the “Dry Gables” Audio Book, “Big Hearts from Yankton.”