FERS Disability: disability retirement from postal service

Lawyer Representation for OPM Disability Retirement: Trapped

October 12, 2018

Desperation is born of it; escape routes relieve the sense of it; and in the end, it is a belief in the hope that there are alternatives which provides a release from it. The wild animal that is trapped will do everything to escape, including acts of self-harm if there is no alternative presented. Whether of higher intelligence or some lesser level, the sense or “feeling” of being trapped leads to a suffocating belief of hopelessness. […]

Federal Employee Disability Information: Future anticipatory grief

August 1, 2018

It is the creativity of the human imagination that both excels and dissipates. But for it, we would not have the advances attained; but because of it, despair and angst presides and dominates. Other species grapple with the present existential circumstances directed by one’s appetitive nature bundled up by needs and current desires. Human beings, while embodied by those same animalistic sensations, […]

Attorney Representation for OPM Disability Claims: Fair Games

July 31, 2018

It depends upon how you read the concept, which word or syllable you place the accent or emphasis upon, doesn’t it? In one sense of the concept, it has to do with games found at the county or state Fairs — you know, where cotton candy is sold and prizes are awarded for the largest potato grown or the fattest pig shown. In another sense, it is in contrast to its opposite — of games where you have a good chance because rules are imposed and upheld, […]

FERS & CSRS Medical Disability Retirement: Divided order

September 6, 2017

Most people are able to tolerate life’s bombardment of stresses by dividing them up, placing them into some semblance of order in priority of tackling them, and bifurcating the individual slices from the aggregate of the whole. For, if you focus too much upon the forest, as opposed to the individual trees that provide markers for finding your way out, your will become overwhelmed and lost. It is thus tantamount to the idea of a chaotic rationality, or a messy desk that is disorganized […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Imperceptible light shifts

June 9, 2017

They are almost imperceptible; in any event, we would not otherwise notice them but for the altered hue in morning’s glory of pink shades and yellow gleams of delight. From one angle and perspective, one might miss the subtlety of a purple shade not otherwise naturally given to observation; from another, a shift, quite impossible to grasp and declare, but there nevertheless, and that is precisely what occurs with the imperceptible light shifts we miss in the daily lives of busy modernity that destroys and in incremental deterioration withdraws from grace. […]

Medical Retirement from Federal Government Employment: Life’s Joke

July 2, 2016

The funniest line in literature comes from Carl Sandburg’s “Potato Face Blind Man” stories, where he describes the reason for the wooden mug: “There is a hole in the bottom of it. The hole is as big as the bottom. The nickel goes in and comes out again. It is for the very poor people who wish to give me a nickel and yet get the nickel back.” Satire has often been overly-discussed, and attempting to explain why a particular scene, line or story is amusing, is somewhat like trying to explain to a Martian why Bradbury’s chronicles fascinated […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS: Junkyards

June 10, 2016

It is the latter in the compound word which is left forgotten and unnoticed, precisely because of the screaming blare represented by the former, demanding attention by the sheer nature and character of its breaching sensibilities, like the spoiled cousin refusing to abide by the conventions imposed upon uninvited visitors and customs curtailing unwanted guests. Once, before time forgotten and memories untarnished, the landscape was perhaps a pasture green with wildflowers and vegetation overgrown; then, a possessor who perhaps put up a fence to demarcate the beauty […]

FERS & CSRS Medical Retirement: The insular world of anger

May 11, 2016

It must be strange to live in a constant cacophony of anger; of a persistent and unrelenting fire pit, where demons jump from ashen glowering of hot red coals to roaring flames of unceasing rage, and back again and yet for more, ever fuming from the slights and hurts both imagined and real, but never able to escape from the corridors of one’s own making. It is, in the end, an emotion of self-destructive turmoil, perpetrating a defiance of civility in order to engage in the ultimate self-immolation, but without honor or quietude, and thus left with the emptiness of seppuku without meditative resilience. […]

OPM Medical Separation & Retirement: Of self-expression in society

April 20, 2016

There exists a proportionate correlation if charted on a graph, between the rise of a need for greater self-expression and the alienation from the individual from a sense of belonging and community. The human animal has an inner need for acceptance and comity within the context of societal cohesion, and this is no different from other species and their behavioral patterns, excepting the “lone wolf” characteristics where mating or predatory consummation represents the only points of contact. […]

Medical Retirement from Federal Service: Profiles in Discourage

April 12, 2016

It is, of course, an obvious play off of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize winning work (publication date of 1955), describing 8 U.S. Senators who displayed courage in the face of criticism (an inherent oxymoron?). Whether or not, and to what extent, Kennedy himself wrote the work (Ted Sorensen, John F.’s speechwriter, finally conceded in his 2008 autobiography as much) […]