Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Defense wins championships, and great defenders win awards.Last year, a defensive back won NFL Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in 14 years — Denver’s Pat Surtain II.Let’s take a look at the odds for this year’s Defensive Player of the Year at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Dec. 10, as well as what to know.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports.2025-26 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett, DE, Browns: -1800What to…

Let’s fall into the dystopian rabbit hole and look, not avert our eyes. We like to believe that working with AI makes us better thinkers. The interaction feels good, ideas come together, and language improves. So far, so good. And it’s easy to read that as growth. But beneath that satisfaction sits an imbalance that most people never see. AI occupies a “cognitive dimension” we don’t. It handles scale, speed, and breadth with a kind of casual authority that has nothing to do with human potential or limitation. And I’ve gone as far as calling this anti-intelligence. Yet we keep…

I know this one I already somewhat popular, but we need to talk about The Endless. This is one of the few films that explores cosmic horror in all of its confusing beauty. it is a film about family, both good and bad. But more importantly, the film asks how we would act in the face of truly unimaginable events. There are plenty of movies that aim for cosmic dread, but The Endless achieves something truly unique. It takes the unknowable horrors of the universe and distills them into something personal, intimate, and almost beautiful. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead…

Yesterday I drove my son to work and, since we arrived early, we sat in the car and chatted. I’m not sure how we got onto the topic, but quite quickly, we began discussing the idea that the things people do are always the best they can do given who they are, what they know, and the circumstances they find themselves in. To be honest, I’ve always been somewhat dismissive of the idea. I mean, really? Even when I goof up, I’m doing my best? And if everything we do is always our best on every occasion, then, so what?…

There is a moment in every career when the external markers of success stop being enough. It is not always tied to age, though it often arrives around midlife. It can show up in the form of burnout, restlessness, a sense of being stuck, or the quiet realisation that the path you’ve been on is no longer the path you want to stay on. In our work with thousands of women, we hear this theme again and again. Some women describe the shift as a slow build. Others say it arrives with force: a job restructure, a health scare, a…

Goals are standards that individuals use to evaluate how well they are doing now relative to where they want to end up. Goals basically guide our choices. Once you have a goal, the hard part is figuring out the steps that will get you from point A to point B. The following guide can help you make well-defined and achievable goals. It also provides clues about the various ways that goal achievement fails (Berkman, 2018; Matthews, 2015). 1. Have a very specific goal in mind. Mastering a complex skill (e.g., playing a musical instrument) takes years of dedication through achieving…

With the Event Horizon prequel comic book series Dark Descent now in its fourth and final printing, readers have made it clear that they are hungry for more hellish sci-fi horror set in the ever-expanding universe of the beloved 1997 film, and IDW Publishing is going to continue to sate those eerie appetites in 2026 with the sequel comic book series Event Horizon: Inferno! Taking place 200 years after the chilling events of the film, Event Horizon: Inferno will be written by Dark Descent writer Christian Ward, who this time will be teaming up with artist Rob Carey (Aliens: Resistance)…

I know this one I already somewhat popular, but we need to talk about The Endless. This is one of the few films that explores cosmic horror in all of its confusing beauty. it is a film about family, both good and bad. But more importantly, the film asks how we would act in the face of truly unimaginable events. There are plenty of movies that aim for cosmic dread, but The Endless achieves something truly unique. It takes the unknowable horrors of the universe and distills them into something personal, intimate, and almost beautiful. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead…

We have numerous expressions involving home: “Home is where the heart is,” “Home sweet home,” and one that is very popular at this time of year: “Home for the holidays.” Home is a container, a place where you can be held. As Valerie Andrews writes in her new book, Our Story of Home, “Home isn’t just four walls with a kitchen and a bed. It’s a hope, a dream, an anthem. Something that lodges in the soul and stays with us despite any hardships we endure.”1 As a universal experience, “home” can be considered an archetype. Carl Jung conceptualized archetypes…

Living in a rural cottage, musician couple Daphne (Rosy McEwan) and Darcy (Dev Patel) get more than they bargained for when they record a bizarre frequency that leads to otherworldly consequences in Rabbit Trap. Written and directed by Bryn Chainey, Rabbit Trap is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD platforms via Magnet Releasing, and we have an exclusive clip for Daily Dead readers to enjoy! Below, you can listen as Darcy captures the hypnotic sounds of birds soaring eerily in the ominous sky in our exclusive clip from Rabbit Trap. To learn more about the film and other exciting…