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FERS Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Maintaining the Fakery

November 27, 2019

Is it like a bakery, or perhaps some other manufacturing facility where things are made? In some sense, perhaps; but it is not the “making” of it, but of maintaining it. To a great extent, we all have a feeling of fakery — that we are not as competent as others believe us to be; that our outer appearance of confidence, boldness, knowledge and positive attitude do not reflect our inner sense of insecurity, tentativeness and lack of certainty. […]

OPM Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The Before & After

September 30, 2019

In once sense, there can always be the identifiable spectrum bifurcated into the “before” and “after”, and the conditions, the context and the significant differences characterized by each. There is the time “before” the 1929 stock market crash, and then the “after”. There is the “before” period in Nazi Germany, and the “after” timeframe subsequent to defeat. […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Answering the question

May 21, 2018

What constitutes “answering the question”, and more importantly, how does one determine when its opposite occurs — NOT answering the question? Does the former occur if the questioner fails to follow up, and does the latter become an issue if the person asking responds with, “That doesn’t answer my question,” or some such similar declarative assertion? […]

Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Closet of skeletons

November 23, 2017

It is a metaphor that is familiar; of secrets, or near-secrets; of those cluttered past incidents and events that need to be kept in the hallway closet, perhaps even locked for safety and security, whether of embarrassment, regret or shame. Yet, modernity has less of them. With the disappearance of shame, of openness of societal mores and normative values disappearing, almost vanishing, […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Different hats, many roles

August 25, 2017

We all wear them, don’t we? Husband, parent, worker, co-worker, supervisor, babysitter, grandparent; or, to remain neutral and non-sexist, wife, mother, worker, co-worker, supervisor, babysitter, grandparent, etc. There, we have dispensed with any allegation that we have not been fully “balanced” in our perspective, allowing for an all-inclusive approach so that no one feels left out. […]

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Dickens, Salinger & Capote, Continued…

March 16, 2016

One could easily spend a lifetime on each, separately; of the first in the trilogy, he mercifully died before the advent of the industrial revolution, whence he may have witnessed even greater upheavals of economic unrest and labor turmoil; of the latter two, they were contemporaries who followed divergent paths — with Salinger left in the hermitage of his insular world of fears, paranoia and distrust of a world which had offered only experiences which validated such churning for a tortured soul, and for Capote, a premature death prompted by a life of public destruction. […]

OPM Medical Retirement Lawyer: The Complexity of Unpredictability

April 30, 2015

Some view human behavioral unpredictability as a declaration of the underlying complexity; others would have it that, far from any such convoluted aspiration towards mystery and intricacy, a yawn and ensuing boredom more likely represents the determinism and simplicity of humans. Which represents the true picture? Perhaps youth and a naive lack of experience in encountering the universe of everyday conflict is what we discover in the spectrum of opinions; and cynicism abounds upon greater enmeshment and entanglement with the human condition. […]

OPM Disability Retirement Attorney: The Quality of Input

March 10, 2015

We often forget that the quality, validity and accuracy of conclusions produced by computers will depend upon the input of information provided. Thus, predictability of future weather forecasts are contingent upon present information selected, and the computational analysis resulting in the future paradigm is founded upon current constructs, analyzed through the cumulative data previously provided, with a dash of witch’s brew and a genuflection of hope. […]

OPM Disability Retirement: A Day Does Not a Life Make, Nor a Decade

January 29, 2015

The tragedy of extinguishment is the failure to recognize future potentiality. We often gauge the value of a lifetime based upon the quality of any given day. Yet, what happens in an arbitrary period of a life, whether viewed randomly on a day, or even assessed and evaluated over a decade, will rarely reflect the comparative worth of a lifetime as analyzed on a linear continuum. Youth is a wasted period of emergence; […]

Disability Retirement from the USPS and other Federal Government Agencies: Belonging

December 15, 2014

There are no more causes by which people live, and those who do, do so within an artifice of self-justifying chameleons of linguistic gibberish. Once upon a time, grand philosophical systems were propounded; from the historical backdrop of Plato’s Republic, to the teleological schemata of Aristotle’s Metaphysics; to Aquinas’ Christian worldview, Kant’s bifurcation […]