FERS Disability: excessive sick leave use by usps employee

FERS Disability Retirement: Refutation of Stefan Zweig’s Essay

October 2, 2019

FERS OPM Medical Retirement: Refutation of Stefan Zweig’s Essay, “Books are the Gateway to the World”. Not quite a refutation, but merely a protest — and perhaps a defense of illiteracy. Zweig writes beautifully; persuasively; in colorful prose that captivates; in convincing form — if not in logical argumentation, but more as a poet who is convinced that words, books, literacy and the spread of the written word is indispensable to life itself. […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Preparing the case

September 20, 2018

For some reason, Federal and Postal workers who “prepare” and submit a Federal Disability Retirement application, do so without much thought as to what is entailed by the entire process. They will often rely upon what the “Human Resource Office” tells them — of forms to fill out, what form to give to the doctor, the form to give to the supervisor, etc., and will spend more time trying to figure out the confusing life insurance form […]

OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: The peskiness of life

March 9, 2018

Somehow, like children and rats, or of mice and men, the peskiness of life continues to trail behind us. We think that things are going well, and then suddenly we realize that the nagging peskiness of life’s challenges has once again come upon us. We wonder when that period of nirvana will be reached; that goal that we allegedly strive for each day of our lives; when will it come to fruition? Life is difficult, and it becomes all the more so because of the technology all around us that persuades, […]

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: The Clock

February 24, 2017

It is an interesting device. We can try and project back to a time of its non-existence, or at least when not every household owned one. What could it have been like? Where the hour was guessed at by the position of the sun – or was that not even part of the thought process? Did the sun, dawn, dusk and twilight merely present a foreboding for a different paradigm? […]

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: The topic of conversation

January 18, 2017

How does it come about – that “topic of conversation”? Is it merely and completely randomly selected, and in a spurious manner caught like the quiet embers that ignite an out-of-control wildfire? Or, does someone Google on the Internet, something like, “Good dinner conversation topics”, and then proceed to print them out so that silence does not pause the ebb and flow of a party’s chatter? […]