Northern Lights

A blog about the wonders and challenges of living in Homer, Alaska, by Miranda Weiss, the author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska.

• Looking Ahead
• First Snow
• Heading to Nanwalek
• Election Day
• Playing at Survival
• Outbreak
• Closing Up and Putting Away
• Walking in the Dark
• Thinking Locally
• A Good Day Fishing
• And Now It’s Fall
• Dispatch from the Veggie Patch
• Berry-Addled
• Back Home from Fish Camp
• Beach Days
• Off to Fish Camp
• Returning From Outside
• The End of Summer
• Cartography
• Lone Moose Calf
• A Walk With Wendy
• Tourist Town
• Saturday Morning Hike
• The Dump
• Clean-Up Day
• In Praise of Ditches
• Spring Arrivals
• Entering Anemone Territory
• The Neighborhood
• Jarl, the Trapper
• Easter in the Snow
• Signs of Spring
• Flying Out
• Iditarod
• A Trip to the Ski Hill
• The Coffee Shop
• Chickens of the North
• Yurt, Part Two
• Tele
• Earthquake
• The Trail We All Will Travel By
• Die-Off
• Through Rain, Wind, and Ice
• Out of the Darkness
• Reality TV Hits Home
• Food Security
• Giving Thanks
• Yurt
• Memo from the Beach Behind the Hockey Rink
• Of Bikes and Bears
• Burn the Darkness, Burn the Loss
• Visiting Day in Salmon School
• The President Comes to the Neighborhood
• Falling Back to the Beginning