...weather clothing. Just wearing it will be a workout. I'm not the only one putting a career on hold to sort garbage. Claire Steffens, an Anchorage attorney, called the day after I was hired. "I'm the other janitor," she said. Steffens is...

...flight. The woman next to me brought half a pizza, a sign I'm not the only one who found the lunch inedible. Claire Steffens, the Anchorage lawyer, crocheted a gray scarf with New Zealand wool she'd just bought. Another woman did needlepoint...