OZY Daily Dose

Teaching is not at all like it is in the movies. Jesse Houser’s mom came to see me before his trial for first-degree murder. He’d written poems about his crime for my English class. Poems so disturbing I’d passed them on to the security guard. No administrative action was taken, no counseling suggested.

This story is very hard for me and, to be honest, I’m scared to share it. Please don’t judge me too harshly. You see, I’ve been thinking long and hard about it. As it is a true story, I can say only that it is one-sided; I can’t speak for the other side, and I have never told this to anyone. It could prove to be a cautionary tale, or it could cause me to be a laughingstock. I think the two are sometimes intertwined. This happened over the course of a week, maybe two.

She said that her girlfriend lived a block away, and that she loved the Castro, San Francisco’s gayborhood. She talked about her tenure at an all-girls high school. Eyebrows raised. For a moment, every piece of the puzzle fell into place. But then she used the phrase “gal pal” — and put the last nail in the coffin with this: “All my girlfriends are moving to San Francisco.

Video by Kevin O'Dowd.Years ago, before batted-ball radar and virtual home-run trackers, the quality of a hit could be gauged by a simple sound test: a sweet, deafening thwack that sends fans scrambling in the bleachers. When Aaron Judge takes batting practice, your ears tell you all there is to know. The New York Yankees' hulking rookie is putting on a show.Gettyimages 667711826Source: Jim McIsaac/GettyAaron Judge (#99) is blocking his fellow Yankees' sun.

EUGENE, SIR: I like oral sex. My girlfriend likes that I like it too. So far, so good. But sometimes I orgasm before she does and while I am eager to finish her off with my mouth, I’m not so eager to do it with a mouth full of my own semen.

Hockey's always been a big part of my life. My love affair with it started in third grade, participating in leagues and even playing street hockey with friends in our neighborhood. Growing up in St. Charles, Missouri, I've been a St. Louis Blues fan pretty much my entire life. Ever since I can remember, my parents had the Blues games on TV. Playoff games were always on pay-per-view, and I remember going to friends' houses with my parents and watching every game we could.

Diving has many draws: shallows with schools of fish, brilliant coral reefs and breathtaking underwater cliffs. But my favorite underwater plunge is the Blue Hole in Gozo, one of Malta's jewel islands. It's like jumping straight into the dark eye of a huge skull jutting out of the rock. And it can be just as scary as that sounds.

Join OZY as we travel through all 50 states to uncover the challenges and meet the innovators reshaping a country that's more divided than ever. In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?” Today my 10-year-old had a soccer match, and I had my first doctor’s appointment with a new physician. For me, that’s letting her know I’m transgender and giving her some history.

A half hour after limping off the court, Kevin Durant sat in a hospital, crying.The former MVP thought his debut season in Golden State was finished in February, cut short by an errant flying 7-footer. Halfway through the season, Durant was finally settled in the Bay Area. He was leading the team in scoring (25.3 per game) and rebounding (8.2), and even had sort of made peace with Russell Westbrook via the All-Star Game alley-oop heard round the world.

Part of an occasional series on unusual words we wish we had in English. Read others here. The trees are waking up, the sun is out, the birds are singing. Finally, finally, after a long winter, it’s time to do something, everything. You know it’s time. It’s definitely time. Time to pull up the covers, watch every episode of Riverdale and contemplate what’s wrong with you that you can’t be like the trees, the birds, the sun and wake up for spring.