The on-going letter-journal of
Some history for those interested: ASR began when I was a teenager. As a lonely geek girl in Oklahoma, I developed quite a number of pen pals. Because I didn't want to write over and over again the same "what have I been up to" in letters, I began writing a kind of update to send along with a personal note. When I moved to California in 1984, a began writing the more personal form which I called "As the Sun Rises: The Science Fiction Soap Opera, Featuring Dawn Atkins." Again, when I moved to Iowa in 1994, I started it up again. Only this time, email made it a lot easier to send to friends and family. Some of you have been on the list at least that long. Others are new friends who I thought might be interested. Over the years it crossed over from a chatty letter into more of a journal. This has been prompted in part by friends who have written queries such as "Dawn you said what you are up to but not how you are doing…" I have tried to use them as a way of letting people know where I am in my life in many ways. If there is something I mention in them that you don't understand or want more information about, just ask.
2004-Present -- See LiveJournal of Purplerabbit
2000
- August 31, 2000 -- Rabbits Flying and Heading North
- March 28, 2000 -- Flying Again
1999
- January 7, 1999 -- Leaving Iowa, Leaving Rowan
- Feb. 15, 1999, Part I -- The Vulnerable Heart*
- Feb. 15, 1999, Part II -- Lost and Found
- March 26, 1999 -- Spring Growth
- June 8, 1999 -- Not all here...
- July 24, 1999, Part I -- Events are Cowards and Loving Takes Courage*
- July 24, 1999, Part II -- Yesterday’s Lost Children*
- Sept. 30, 1999 -- Enjoying Our Bliss
- November 10, 1999 -- Absence make the heart grow fonder… or colder (Never Mailed)*
- November 10, 1999 -- Custody & Ritual
- November 24, 1999 -- Magic Works!
1998
- February 4, 1998 -- Rising Early, Setting Late
- March 18, 1998 -- If the sun has risen, why is it still so dark out?
- March 21, 1998 -- Feeling better
- April 7, 1998 -- Is that a light I see?
- April 19, 1998 -- Hostages to Fortune*
- May 5, 1998 -- Fasten your seat belts, this ride is rough.
- June 6, 1998 -- Where have I been?
- June 23, 1998 -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
- July 17, 1998 -- Judges, Boll Weevils and the Soul
- October 19, 1998 -- Where am I?
- November 10, 1998 -- Home Beside the Bay
- December 15, 1998 -- Longing for the return of the sun/son
- December 25, 1998 -- It was a dark and stormy night
- December 27, 1998 -- Made It!
1997
- January 16, 1997 -- Warm Thoughts from Freezing Iowa
- January 28, 1997 -- Life Rolls On
- February 12, 1997 -- Snowy Mornings and No Time to Hibernate
- February 27, 1997 -- Sad Mornings
- March 24, 1997 -- Longer days (and sometimes longer nights)
- May 3, 1997 -- Too much of a good thing just might still be too much.
- July 28, 1997, Part I -- Chasing the Sun
- July 28, 1997, Part II -- New Place, Same Me
- July 28, 1997, Part III -- Stranger in a Strange Land
- August 1, 1997 -- My Stars, What a Day!
- August 11, 1997 -- Bicycle Tours
- August 27, 1997 -- Home Coming
- September 18, 1997 -- On the Road Again
- October 1, 1997 -- Love Burns
- November 12, 1997 -- Shorter Days, Longer Nights
- December 31, 1997 -- Greeting the New Sun
1996
- March 13, 1996 -- Still in Iowa…
- May 1, 1996 -- What are we up to?
- May 17, 1996 -- What a month!
- May 20, 1996 -- More Good News...
- May 22, 1996 -- Baby update
- June 28, 1996 -- And Baby Makes Five...
- August 9, 1996 -- What a great day...
- September 12, 1996 -- Hectic, but here...
- October 22, 1996 -- Still alive ... I think.
- November 17, 1996 -- Off to California...
- December 12, 1996 -- Exciting News
1980s
- December, 18, 1984 -- Dawn Over California or an Okie Goes to Oakland
- April 30, 1985 -- The Sun Rises in the Midwest or Home To Where My Heart Is
- August 1, 1985 -- Sunlight on the Mountain, Dawn Climbs to New Heights
- August 6, 1986 -- It Finally Happened
- December 1989 -- After the Dust Has Settled or Sunrise in Santa Cruz