OZY Daily Dose

A six-year-old Margaret Atwood was entranced by Grimm’s Fairy Tales. She was drawn not by the violence or conflict, but rather the transformations that characters underwent. Unlike one-dimensional heroines of classic children’s tales like Cinderella, Grimm’s women deployed wit and cunning, and the capacity for evil upended gendered assumptions.

Katina Davis knew, maybe even as early as the moment she gave birth to her daughter, that Kayla would be fast.And, in a sense, it was no surprise to anyone; Katina had earned a track scholarship to the University of Iowa, and her husband Jeremy earned a basketball scholarship to UNC Greensboro.Img 20110731 00184Kayla at 7 years old won 1st place, 1st in 100m 14.35 National Record and 2nd 200m 24.51 at the JO National 2011 in Wichita, Kansas.

Scene: A sweltering late-summer day at NFL headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City. Commissioner Roger Goodell welcomes quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick into his spacious office. Four helmets are arranged on the desk.Goodell: Kap ... can I call you Kap?Kaepernick: That's cool.Please ... sit.Thank you for agreeing to meet me. It's long overdue, and that's on me. And thank you for coming alone; I didn't want this to be a show - no cameras, no media. You're not on Snap, right?[laughs] Nah .

The number 118 is for emergency services in Italy. It's a good number to remember. Even better to have a phone that will work in Italy, just in case you need to call 118. I didn't. And then I did - have a phone that worked and needed to use it, I mean.We arrived in Rome around 10 pm and had a little trouble finding the bed-and-breakfast where we were staying. It was an apartment where a couple rented out their bedrooms.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"Garrett FlickerDenver, ColoradoDay started off really good. I woke up at home with my beautiful boyfriend. We're both political scientists. He's going into the law side of things, and I'm sticking with politics. Went to the gym. I go every day, since I'm recovering from a large surgery in November - a spinal fusion, eight discs outfitted with about 20 screws.

It was Saturday, May 13, 1922, the day my grandmother Genowefa Sienkiewicz was born. Her mother, Weronika, died right after my grandmother took her first breath.My great-grandmother Weronika Ciolek was an aristocrat. An aristocrat who loathed the aristocracy. Which is to say she was riding horses when only men did, and she didn't want to marry her cousin. So she married a farmer named Mateusz Sienkiewicz instead.They wanted to live life their way, and to do so they had to leave Poland.

From winning contests to effortlessly executing the same tricks as their decades-older peers, the new generation of female skateboarders can do just about anything. Anything, that is, except get into a PG-13 movie. Around the world, female skateboarders as young as 10 have been turning pro and setting their sights on collecting medals in global contests, from Southern California's Vans U.S. Open Pro Series to Minneapolis' X Games to the upcoming SLS World Championship in São Paulo, Brazil.

The soft, steady buzz of tattoo needles echoes in the distance. A pregnant Ally Burke leans against the wall in the hallway and slowly slides herself down to sit. She sighs deeply and closes her eyes - she just needs a minute.Was it all worth it? Did the event actually work to raise awareness? Why did I wear these shoes? she asks herself.Burke tries to quiet her mind, but it's like a pinball machine with an unlimited supply of free turns.

She was like a cat: smooth moves, flexible and a tendency to always land on her feet. Most strippers have exactly that, and she wasn't an exception. I told my friend who was dating her that, because the first time I saw her, I knew right away he was a goner. Too much in love with the way she laughed and carried herself and, yes, she was stunning, so my opinion didn't affect their relationship.

Spring Arehart doesn't think about school shootings while walking around campus. That that needs to be said is troubling, actually. But it is true that the Hispanic music lover has chosen not to go to some concerts and festivals, out of concerns for her safety. "I don't think I'm going to be personally targeted," the University of Arizona graduate student says. "But if my chances in a mass shooting were one in 50 of being shot, I wouldn't want to risk being in that one.