Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

Lucas Herbert hangs on to his narrow lead, sitting three strokes ahead of Sergio Garcia as the two separate themselves from the pack ahead of Sunday’s final round of Maaden LIV Golf Virginia. A tournament win for Herbert would mark his first league victory – and a potential spot in next month’s U.S. Open.Herbert maintained his lead at Trump National Washington D.C. with a solid 4-under 68 in Saturday’s third round, leaving him at 21 under and three shots ahead of Garcia, who shot a 65 to move to 18 under. However, the next players chasing his lead were eight…

Many years ago, I completely forgot it was Mother’s Day. However, since I called my mother regularly, I still happened to call her that day. We spoke for about 20 minutes, and just as I was about to hang up, my mother said, “Aren’t you going to wish me happy Mother’s Day?” Like a deer caught in headlights, I was completely caught off guard and replied, “Mom, I am so sorry! I can’t believe I forgot.” Now, some mothers would have been insulted, hurt or angry. My mother? Here’s what she said: “You don’t need to be sorry! Your call…

Bobby Cox, the folksy manager of the Atlanta Braves whose dominance in the 1990s gave the city its first major title as well as World Series trips that fell short, has died at the age of 84.The Atlanta Braves announced Cox’s death Saturday; details weren’t immediately available. Cox had a stroke in 2019.”Bobby was the best manager to ever wear a Braves uniform. He led our team to 14 straight division titles, five National League pennants, and the unforgettable World Series title in 1995. His Braves managerial legacy will never be matched,” the Braves said in a statement.Cox took over…

Sarah had been low contact with her mother for the past few months and was approaching her first Mother’s Day. “I mailed a card and scheduled a text message to be sent on Sunday,” she said. “But why do I still feel guilty? Like I should be doing something more?” “What more do you think you could do?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she said. “Anything more just drains me emotionally. It reminds me of all the birthdays and holidays and graduations she ruined. I spent years ignoring those things and turning the other cheek just to save face for…

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The Outsiders, the Broadway musical directed by Danya Taymor and based on the novel by S. E. Hinton, brings to the stage a novel that has touched generations. The story follows Ponyboy Curtis as he moves through a world divided by class, violence, and the desire to belong. The conflict between the working-class Greasers and the wealthy Socs shapes the emotional and psychological landscape of the story, influencing how the characters experience identity, fear, loyalty, and survival. Having already seen the show multiple times and spoken with members of the cast, I feel deeply invested in the story and the…

Having played the ever-resourceful Tree Gelbman in the Happy Death Day movies, Jessica Rothe is no stranger to playing a character trapped in a loop of lethal carnage, but in the new film Affection, she finds herself entangled in a whole other type of vicious cycle as Ellie, a woman who wakes up to a doting husband (Joseph Cross) and concerned daughter (Julianna Layne). The only problem? She doesn’t remember either one, instead having memories of a different husband and a son. That’s only the first of many intriguing twists and turns in Affection, the impressive directorial debut from BT…

By the time many people seek treatment for an eating disorder, the focus has often become food, weight, behaviors, and medical risk. Those things matter deeply, but beneath the symptoms, another story is often unfolding quietly in the background: a story about attachment, safety, connection, and the fear of being too much, not enough, or emotionally unprotected. Attachment theory helps us understand how our earliest relational experiences shape the way we regulate emotion, seek comfort, respond to distress, and experience ourselves in relationships. Eating disorders are not caused by attachment wounds alone, because genetics, temperament, trauma, neurobiology, culture, and dieting…

1980’s Mother’s Day is one of the most brutal slasher-revenge hybrids of the entire decade.It’s the perfect horror movie for Mother’s Day … obviously!You really can’t tell the story of Mother’s Day without bringing up Friday the 13th.Thematically, the movies are almost identical — they both revolve around murderous boy moms, they both involve women in peril in the woods of New Jersey, they both have Carrie-inspired jump scare endings. Not only were the two films shot and released around the same time, they were even filmed in close geographical proximity to one another. Of course, the films had drastically different…

I’m not married. I’ve never been married. I’m an undrafted free agent out of my prime. My longest life commitments thus far have been to a wine club and Netflix — both of which I’ve quit and resumed multiple times. My parents, though, have been married since they eloped after sneaking out their bedroom windows at age 16 in Wichita, Kansas. They remain the closest thing to the definition of “soulmates.” Much has been penned about the free-spirited male species, as if we were as rare and captivating as the Northern White Rhino, and as hard to tame as the…