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Medical Retirement from the U.S. Postal Service and other Federal Agencies: The State of Solitude

May 20, 2015

Having a medical condition necessarily results in a state of solitude. While others can empathize, no one else can fully comprehend the totality of the experiential turmoil and trauma, the emotional, physical and psychological toll upon the diminished personhood and the daily struggle endured. It is a solitary state of existence, and all the more so when individuals, agencies, friends, family and acquaintances fail to take the time to understand. […]

Reflections on Federal Disability Retirement this Independence Weekend

July 5, 2014

Each country has a symbolic date for celebrating independence; that historic marker which represents the freeing of a populace from the chains of tyranny. Some may view it as an anachronism, and in such a mindset, it is merely another day off from the daily . […]

Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Transfinite Cardinals

May 28, 2014

It is a concept invented in order to avoid the inherently problematic implications of the “infinite”; yet, it clearly means that it is “not finite”. It is meant to avoid a type of exclusive disjunctive and attempts to equivocate and obfuscate, implying that it somehow goes beyond the finite but refuses […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Problem of the Lowest Common Denominator

May 21, 2014

What is wrong with going to the essence of the matter, skipping the process, and reducing everything to its lowest common denominator? Doesn’t efficiency demand such an approach? Isn’t the most effective method of attaining an end, to identify […]

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: An Altered Life of Habituation

April 29, 2014

Loss of stature and status can come in many forms; we think too often in terms of financial status, of material belongings, where we live, with whom we associate, and the subtle evaluation of social consciousness in relation to our neighbors, friends and family. […]

OPM FERS Disability Retirement: The Declination of Laughter

April 23, 2014

Does lack of laughter signify anything? If a person was known to laugh a lot, then one day comes in with nary a chuckle, is it significant at all? Is it the reverberation from the throat, or the eyes which reveal sadness, which tells the true tale of a person’s state of mind? […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Danger of Forecasting

April 22, 2014

The accuracy of forecasting a future event is based upon the validity of present facts and information, and generated within a program of patterns relying upon past mesodels. But as present circumstances can change at any given moment, and unforeseen […]

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Suburban Sketches

April 19, 2014

Within the past 2 weeks: a rabbit’s nest is discovered in the back yard; then, in the early morning dawn of the next morning, that same discovery is met with a predator whose presence is feared only in the limited universe of suburbia — the neighborhood cat. Laying with […]

OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: To Be a Squirrel, for a Day

April 9, 2014

Watching them is an exercise of fascination; with nimble flight, to jump from a rooftop to the tip of a branch 10 feet away; scurry up and down trees with little thought (or is that merely a human projection without justification?) and no hesitation between the […]

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Where Once, the Mirror Reflected

March 26, 2014

Communities are sensitive organisms; what constitutes one, how and when it is identified as such, and whether there exist any such entities, anymore, is of valid concern. Is a suburb comprised of mansions constructed in the middle of an outlying tract of land, formerly […]