I hear the reporter’s voice from the news as I finish getting dinner for Wyatt. “Drama today at the Forge stadium as a run-of-the-mill press conference ends in controversy. Star player Hawk Moyer and Stag Law CEO Tim Stag angrily ejected members of the media from the stadium as team officials decline to comment on the—”

I mash the buttons on the remote, finally changing the channel to PBS. The theme song to Octonauts fills the apartment instead and I return to my ...