FERS Disability: elements of accepted dol disability claim

OPM Disability Retirement: Silent lives defying interpretation

April 5, 2017

Life is a mystery, and individual lives a puzzle untold. It is the calluses that we develop throughout our lives that diminish our individual and collective curiosity to get to know the “other”. We are born with a teleological intellect striving to unravel and unmask the depths of human essence; but modernity, technology and the singular focus of tangents often involving prurient asides distract and envelop with unwavering obsessions, but it has gotten worse: no, not in any violent manner or upheaval of historical significance; rather, the electronic means of texting, emailing, Facebook-ing and other such means […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Designing a different biography

April 4, 2017

Each of us has one, but we know not what it states; for, it is what is written and carried by someone else, and not from ourselves. Yes, yes, we also have an “autobiography”, as well – a narrative of how we see ourselves, in what manner, of what form, in what scintillating and scandalous light. But it is the collective viewpoints of all whom we have encountered that comprise, constitute and in the compendium of the aggregate, tell the story of “that person” – you. […]

FERS Disability Retirement from OPM: Moving on

March 29, 2017

That is what people want to do, and in the aggregate, the world around. In engagements with others, there is a limited and quantifiable extent of patience. It is tantamount to that ‘arc of flight’ that every animal possesses – as long as you remain outside of that safe-zone, you will be a suspicious entity perceived by watchful caution; […]