Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Whether it is the parents on your child’s sports team, a group of people who live in the same cul-de-sac, or your team at work, people in a group can turn toxic quickly. Four signs may signify that it is not a healthy situation, and knowing how to deal with it may protect you. Four signs indicate that you are involved in such a group. First, you discover that the people in the group have been talking negatively about you behind your back. Hurt and confused, you wrack your brain for anything that you may have done to upset somebody,…

Imagine going to the doctor for a minor problem, like weakness in your leg, and you are told that 90 percent of your brain is missing. Sound impossible? It happened to a 44-year-old French civil servant. This case, and others like it, challenge everything we thought we knew about the brain’s role in human consciousness and intelligence. Perhaps the most interesting question isn’t how someone can function without a brain, but rather, where else might intelligence reside in the human body? When Less Brain Means More Questions In 2007, researchers published a fascinating case report in the medical journal The…

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College Athletics and New Balance have further expanded their relationship to include the Eagles’ football program as part of their comprehensive apparel deal. Beginning with the upcoming 2025 season, all aspects of BC Football’s apparel and footwear will be produced by New Balance.The extension into the football space strengthens the historic deal between Boston College and New Balance, which started four years ago. In April 2021, BC Athletics and New Balance agreed to the largest financial footwear and apparel agreement in school history.  Moving forward with the addition of football, New Balance will provide footwear,…

ORLANDO — The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and the Fiesta Bowl have announced Boston College as the winner of the 2025 Community Service Award today during the 2025 NACDA & Affiliates Convention.The Community Service Award will be presented by NACDA and the Fiesta Bowl this fall, at an on-campus event hosted by BC.”I would like to thank NACDA and the Fiesta Bowl for recognizing Boston College as the winner of this prestigious award,” said William V. Campbell Director of Athletics Blake James.  “This is a credit to the culture of service and a true point of pride within Boston…

Director David F. Sandberg is taking a swing at reviving The Amityville Horror franchise. The horror tale as old as time, or at least since the mid 1970’s, will be produced by Amazon MGM studios. Instead of a direct remake, the approach has been announced as more of a re-imagining. The original movie is based […]

Sighted people tend to fear blindness as much as or more than other disabling impairments (Enoch et al., 2019; Scott et al., 2016). They view blindness as tragic and assume that blind people are desperate for a cure (Nario-Redmond, 2020). At the onset of sight loss, people experience severe psychological distress (Boagy et al., 2022; Nyman et al., 2012). At that point, virtually all would welcome a treatment that would reverse their sight loss. But the collapse of their sighted identity eventually leads them to begin forming a new identity that includes blindness as a central feature. What Is Identity?…

CHARLOTTE, N.C.  – Four Boston College student-athletes will take part in the 2025 Unity Tour, presented by the Atlantic Coast Conference.Student-athletes Ty Clemons (Football), Athena Tomlinson (Women’s Basketball), Bryce Copeland-Del Toro (Men’s Soccer), Janis Espinoza (Softball) – along with athletics administrators Michael Harris and Josh Beekman – will represent the Eagles from June 19-22, with stops in Montgomery, Selma, and Tuskegee, Alabama. This is the fourth annual Unity Tour that includes student-athletes and administrators from each of the league’s 18 member institutions.Each ACC member institution is invited to send six representatives – four student-athletes and two coaches or staff members…

That’s right, Dropout’s Isabella Rolland is bringing her new film D(E)AD to limited theaters this fall! This new horror comedy focuses on Izzy’s personal struggles after her problematic father passes away. However, Izzy’s dad hasn’t quite left this plane of existence entirely. Instead, he has chosen to haunt everyone in the family. Well, except Izzy, that is. D(E)AD is a fantastic film that explores the different channels of grief in spectacular fashion. The film primarily focuses on how we often feel haunted by our loved ones’ memories. While this is a pretty common trope, Izzy does a fantastic job of…

What makes music unique, unlike other forms of expression or communication? I suspect most people could put together a personal list of several things. But among the most important have to be the ways music is wedded to time. Each note – even each rest – has a time value. Each measure has a time signature, the meter, and the repeating meter, measure after measure, contributes to the song’s beat. Also, while other activities (such as an athletic maneuver or telling a joke) may require timing for brief moments, a piece of music depends on timing for many consecutive minutes.…

COYOTES: “Aura Entertainment has announced the official release of Colin Minihan’s latest feature Coyotes. Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family (Long, Bosworth, Harris) must fight for survival as a pack of savage coyotes closes in. Aura will bring the star-studded indie horror comedy to Fantastic Fest on September 20, followed by a national theatrical release on October 3. The cast is led by Justin Long (Barbarian) and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns). The real life couple and creative partners are joined in the horror comedy by Katherine McNamara (Shadowhunters), Brittany Allen (What Keeps You Alive), Mila Harris (Mary), and…