Miranda Weiss is the author of Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska. Her science and nature writing has appeared in the American Scholar, the Washington Post, the Economist, Alaska Dispatch News and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Homer.
One of my older daughter’s first words was “spider.” She would squeal “sib-oh” and point when we spotted the gray-black velvet bodies scuttling among the stalks...
