“You lost your graphing calculator again?”

“Don’t sound so surprised.”

(to the ceiling) “This is worse than the time the library mishelved A Brief History of Time under fiction.”

The TV is tuned to Jeopardy! , but no one is watching. Sheldon (14) sits cross-legged on the floor, holding a Blu-ray case like a sacred artifact.

“The basement’s just old phone cases and a raccoon we named Kevin.”