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Miranda Weiss

Northern Lights

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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

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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