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.

Clean-Up Day

Here’s to a little springtime amnesia

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday May 12, 2016

In Praise of Ditches

Things both wondrous and necessary

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday May 5, 2016

Spring Arrivals

The new music of the season

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday April 28, 2016

Entering Anemone Territory

A morning’s adventure on the flats

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday April 21, 2016

The Neighborhood

Everywhere the signs of life, and death

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday April 14, 2016

Jarl, the Trapper

The lonely cold of the Bush awaits

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday April 7, 2016

Easter in the Snow

Gathering at the yurt on a wintry spring day

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday March 31, 2016

Signs of Spring

Stop and pick the nettles

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday March 24, 2016

Flying Out

In praise of the small airport

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday March 17, 2016

Iditarod

When the mushers approach, the village comes out to watch

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday March 10, 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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