Miranda Weiss

Miranda Weiss is a science and nature writer. The author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, she also wrote the Northern Lights blog for our website.

Playing at Survival

Learning to forage, 4,000 miles from here

By Miranda Weiss | Wednesday September 28, 2016

Outbreak

Evergreens gone brown

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday September 22, 2016

Closing Up and Putting Away

The summer is gone; so too are the crowds

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday September 15, 2016

Walking in the Dark

Sometimes you don’t want to look straight ahead

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday September 8, 2016

Thinking Locally

If you dream it, you can do it

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday September 1, 2016

A Good Day Fishing

From the bountiful bay

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday August 25, 2016

And Now It’s Fall

The warmth was all too fleeting

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday August 18, 2016

Dispatch from the Veggie Patch

They ruined butter lettuce, but didn’t touch the kale

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday August 11, 2016

Berry-Addled

The local bounty of summer

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday August 4, 2016

Back Home from Fish Camp

Notes from a working holiday

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday July 28, 2016

To Get to the Other Side

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday September 21, 2023

Surviving the Ebb and Flow

By Miranda Weiss | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Deep-Rooted Communities

By Miranda Weiss | Tuesday June 1, 2021

Alaska After the Quake

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday December 6, 2018

Courage Before the Thaw

By Miranda Weiss | Monday March 5, 2018

Looking Ahead

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday October 27, 2016

First Snow

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday October 20, 2016

Heading to Nanwalek

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday October 13, 2016

Election Day

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday October 6, 2016

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