Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

One of the main reasons healing a marriage after infidelity is so difficult—even when both people have the best of intentions—is that recovery is anything but steady. Just when it seems like you’re starting to turn a corner and feel a bit more like yourself again, something happens, and you’re right back where you started. Discouragement sets in. Hope begins to fade. Then, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get yourself back on track. Only for a while, that is, until the next land mine trips you up. The ups and downs become unbearable, leaving both spouses thinking,…

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Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes could be on track to return to the field sooner than expected.Chiefs general manager Brett Veach told SiriusXM on Monday morning that Mahomes’ rehab is well ahead of schedule. The strong progress puts Mahomes in a position to potentially take part in portions of the team’s offseason workout program if his recovery continues without setbacks.”He’s way ahead of schedule,” Veach said. “I think the biggest challenge that we’re going to have is protecting [Mahomes] against himself because I’m sure when we get to St. Joseph, Missouri, for training camp, he’s going to want…

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Mental Health Month. In that spirit, I want to name something that often goes unspoken: the intersection of financial health and mental health. AAPI communities are not a monolith. We include a wide diaspora with different languages, migration histories, class backgrounds, and access to resources. And yet, some of us grew up with a familiar set of narratives, about achievement, family, and what it means to “make it.” In graduate school, I learned language for experiences I had already lived; the model minority myth, the “bamboo ceiling,” and earlier policies like the…

Last year at SDCC, we first shared with Daily Dead readers that Jim Fletcher, the award-winning creative director behind DC Uniformz, the DC Black and White statue series, and many other beloved projects, has been working on a new book of fantastical creature faces he’s named Flippitoons: “Never before could one masquerade as two other creatures by means of only one mask – now that all changes. Gaze in the mirror & behold : with one turn of the mask the face of one fantastical creature gazes back at you, yet turn the mask again & regard how a second…

When people hear that I’m an ethicist, they often present me with a scenario and ask, “What should I do?” This is a mistake for two reasons. First, you don’t want me – or anyone else – to make decisions for you. Second, you don’t actually want to be told what to do – even by yourself. What you really want is to be motivated to act based on what you truly care about. Thinking About Ethics Differently We tend to think that ethics, like law or medicine, can provide correct answers to difficult questions. An ethicist is, therefore, an…

V/H/S spinoffs aren’t just inevitable … they’re like, really inevitable, I guess.From B/E/T/A to V/P/N/, the V/H/S spin-off possibilities are virtually endless!The V/H/S franchise is pretty much an annual Halloween rite at this point. Each fall, we wait with bated breathe for the next installment in the anthology series to make its way to streaming. And year in, year out, the series almost always manages to deliver. Like the yearly Simpsons Treehouse of Horror special, it’s a tradition that could go on for years, if not decades.Of course, the formula is going to need to be tweaked every now and…

My husband was at work when I might have miscarried. I was lying on the couch in our basement, zoning out to cable news, too nauseous to move. I had been showing what my doctor told us were symptoms of pregnancy—extreme nausea, breast changes, cramping, and fatigue—too early for a test. We had been hoping—praying—I was pregnant with a baby girl. But then, as I lay on the couch, my period started. The blood didn’t seem real. I wondered if anything was. I felt the cramping but didn’t feel it, its weightiness in my body. I was alone both with…

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