Within a year of moving in with her parents, Hope Oriabure-King had replaced the toilet she shared with her four children three times. Her little boys would flush Transformers and other stuff down the drain and clog the pipes, and though she says she can laugh at it now, at the time it was awful for her and her parents. Such arrangements are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. — a record 60.6 million people lived in multigenerational households in 2014, a Pew Research Center study found.

Christmas Eve is here. Well, not literally - it's mid-March, for Wooden's sake - but the eve of the greatest four-day stretch in sports is here. Thursday at 12:15 p.m. EST, March Madness starts in earnest. So, print your brackets out, start talking that talk to your least favorite co-worker and book a table for a nice long lunch on Friday afternoon.And don't forget to join OZY's Bracket Challenge for a chance to "Stump the Chump." That'd be me, folks.

My life is a matrix of measured time. My kids peg me on the spectrum, but routines are what have made it possible for me to do anything of worth in my life, and so it is that, in general, I'm a prime candidate for assassination since my schedule varies very rarely. My paranoia prevents me from keeping any kind of calendar that anyone else could get a gander at, but doing the same things at the same time is both predictable and pleasant.

It was a small town between the Baltic Sea and a river. You could walk across the whole town in less than 30 minutes. We had one elementary school, one cemetery and one church, one bridge - and nothing going on until summertime, when tourists came to spend their vacation at the sea. I was 7 or 8 years old, and the only organized activity we had was a karate class.

The road to the Maze is steep and windy. After zigzagging our way up Tavares Bastos, a hilltop favela in Rio de Janeiro, we step into a narrow alleyway where neighbors chat and hang laundry out to dry, their doors open for relief from the summer heat. Inside the Maze, there's a panoramic vista of Guanabara Bay and the iconic Sugarloaf Mountain.

Over a two-year period, filmmakers embedded with cops in Flint, Michigan. The Netflix docuseries Flint Town reveals the everyday struggles of an under-resourced police department.Born from water, flint is a hard rock that can spark fire. As it turns out, so can its namesake town in the Midwest, as evidenced by a 2016 water crisis that pushed the community of Flint, Michigan, into the national spotlight.

For hundreds of years, the mantra of fatalism has been a necessary salve for millions upon millions of Indians. The very concept of karma, that our previous lives are to be blamed for what we're suffering (or not) in the present, is an escape valve that makes a life of extreme poverty at least slightly bearable. But the tides have been shifting in the world's largest democracy.

Before my kids woke up, I drove my sick, ancient cat, Stan, from Baltimore to Philadelphia in my junky Rav4. I assumed we'd arrive at his clinical interview, meet the surgeon and her grad students and be gently turned away.

They wore vests festooned with patches, Kangol hats tilted to the side and Haggar slacks or jeans, and they carried inverted golf clubs - for clubbing, not golf. Standing atop and astride milk crates spread across the sidewalk, three teens laughed and glowered at the pedestrians who had to step into the street to get past them, a procession of women, kids and, most appallingly, able-bodied men who figured that the better part of valor was getting home in one piece.

To experience a real Mozambican meal in pristine surroundings, you don't need to travel far from capital Maputo's rich neighborhoods, where everything seems fake and standardized. Drive down the coastal road, Avenida da Marginal, north to the Praia da Costa do Sol beach. It's here where ordinary Mozambicans come to relax, with the ocean breeze and African rhythms for company.