Sparkle Stories Blog

In this episode, Meghan, David, and Rebecca discuss the story “Winter Wonder,” in which Helmut, one of the Goose-eye Wilderness School apprentices, talks about how “wondering” can be an effective teacher in the natural world

Today we launch a third Dry Gables collection: “Good Neighbors.”

In this post, we will meet the true power center of our Dry Gables’ community. Our blacksmith, Johann Bauer. There is only one way to treat our Johanns…like royalty—not in terms of honoring their status, as much as respecting their power.

The stories from the two Dry Gables Series include an accompanying post from the Sparkle Schoolhouse Educator, Meredith Markow. So, if you’re looking to trust someone, look no further than to our responsible, dutiful and loyal dry goods proprietors, Franz and Lena Denken!

In this post we spend some time with the warm and generous Liesl Herz, Dry Gable’s nurse and healer.

Greetings, Sparkle Grown Ups! Get on your 3-D glasses, and boldly go where no man has gone before! To the truth seeking, innovative mind of our friend, Max Denken!

In this post, we go deep sea diving into the realms of beauty, depth, longing, intuition, creativity and imagination. And it is here that we will meet Ernst Bernard’s beloved teacher, Mr. Seamus O’Conner.

Our Martas are the peacekeepers, and they create harmony and ease among their fellow friends (and even adversaries).

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!

Hello again, Sparkle Friends! Nice to be with you and our nurse and healer of Dry Gables, Liesl Herz.