OZY Daily Dose

Angelica Sydney is a Canadian writer, sports enthusiast and travel junkie.I was covered from head to toe in paint, mud, powder and chocolate, and so was the camera. The problem? It belonged to my school. Just hours before, the sounds of barking dogs and crowing roosters filled the night air. It was a.m., and we were preparing for pre-Carnival celebrations known as J'Ouvert (French Creole for "dawn" or "daybreak"). My mother, in her Trinidadian accent, asked whether I had everything I needed. "Angel .

The author is a writer, performer and visual artist based in Melbourne. My marriage is splintering. My baby’s just over a year old and my toddler nearly three. They wake every single night – my older boy is asthmatic – and I’m the one who gets up to help them. My mother has a loving bond with my boys, and it’s good to have another pair of hands and someone to talk to. The tension between me and my husband escalates daily. He wants sex. I want to sleep for 200 years.

Julius Erving jammed on him. A dribble, two big steps, a palmed ball and then a rocked rim as Erving took flight and dunked over Bill Walton. The New York native was simply too fast and too technically sound for the star defender. But Erving's path to the elite world of the NBA wasn't lined with hardwood floors and gym memberships.

EUGENE, SIR: I just found out my boyfriend of three years used to be an escort. He says he needed the money and had sex only with female clients, but he did do “dom” work with men. This came out casually, not like I discovered it or anything, or like he was trying to hide it, so at first I felt like I should not be freaked out. But I am, a little bit. We used condoms for the first month we were together but didn’t after that. So that’s got me freaked out.

When interviewing Norbert Almeida, you become acutely aware that every minute your discussion drags on may be putting lives at risk. His phone is off, which means he's not tweeting out constant alerts updating Karachi's citizens on vital information about what's happening around the city. Almeida, a security expert, is best known for his popular Norbalm twitter account, which sends out routine alerts on security issues like possible kidnappings, crimes, deaths, roadblocks and bombings.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"Mindy Vincent Salt Lake CityWe are running up to the store to get some brown paper bags for the exchange - I didn't know we were running low. We don't like to just hand people all their supplies, especially because almost all of them are homeless. They don't really have a place to keep them. Having a little brown bag makes it easier.

Edmond Sumner’s enticing NBA prospects are a surprise to the coaches who overlooked him a few years ago. Back then, he was short, skinny and easy to push around. Today, even after a recent ACL injury sidelined him for the rest of the college season, possibly pushing him into the 2018 NBA draft class, the sophomore point guard for the Xavier University Musketeers in Cincinnati can carry his weight among the best in the nation.

Your one hand holds the steaming bag of chili-filled goodness. The other hand tremulously approaches the white plastic fork emerging from the cheesy depths. Welcome to the saucy, luscious glory of your first Chuck Wagon Frito pie. First, a Frito pie primer: Dozens of chips are smothered in hot chili and served right in the bag.

EUGENE, SIR: Me and my husband tried to have a threesome. I say “tried” because he surprised us both by not being able to perform. So he ended up watching me and the guy, who wasn’t someone we knew before. I felt bad having such a good time, but I’m bad at faking it and it seemed crazy to fake like I was having a bad time when I was not.

Because if you’re going on a road trip these days, you better bring more than a backpack … just in case. Daniel Lev Shkolnik is a journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut.