Absolute Citrin

I’m taking piano lessons this year. I’ve been told that I have no musical talent, which is probably true, but that should not keep me from learning piano. I was also told that I was not a dancer, but then I married a dancer who asked me to take dance lessons with her. Now I consider myself a dancer, and maybe sometime in the future, I’ll consider myself a musician. Along with the lessons, I’m thinking about buying an online...

Sharing coffee with a a colleague the other day was like the sun warming me as I took my morning walk with Cody. It felt good inside. We both relished the idea of connecting with colleagues and friends again and realized that one could not force these changes in the workplace, and that they will happen through real-time meetups. He sees his team returning to their hybrid workplace on a “we’ll see how it works out basis” Yet, he sees...

When I read the word “revanchist” in Sunday morning’s New York Times in a story about Vladimir Putin, I knew I had to look that word up again. It popped up on my NPR news feed earlier in the week, and I saw it when I scanned my Fox News App. Now it demanded my attention as a new word for my lexicon. The New York Times quote: “Or was he transformed over time into the revanchist warmonger of today….”...

I’m lucky to be married to an artist. My wife Sheila was a professional dancer earlier in her career and uses dance and movement in her current work with clients. We have a sign in our kitchen that reads, “in this house, we dance.” I often comment that the great thing about living with an artist is that we always have a mindset of creativity and beauty around us. The downside is that we always must have a mindset of...

I’m finding myself overwhelmed again, much as I did during the early days of Covid. This time, of course, it is about the tragedy in Ukraine and the uncertainty of what a post-covid America will look like as we return to work and face our economic and social challenges In my resilience workshops, I suggest that we all temper our news intake to avoid getting overwhelmed by information. The news is designed to stimulate our sympathetic nervous system and gets...

A new study suggests that we have over 6000 thoughts a day and other researchers believe they are the same ones we had yesterday.  Our minds are incessant with ideas and can lead to a life like a larvae stuck in our cocoon, unable to connect to the rest of the world. To worsen the situation, many of our thoughts are driven by the negativity bias, which means that we are overly focused on making sure bad things don’t happen....