FERS Disability: opm reasonable accommodation and disabilities retirement request forms

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Pure fun

March 29, 2019

Are we the only species who does that? Do other species engage in the sheer pleasure of its purity, without regard to any instructional end or substantive gain resulting therefrom? Of course, anthropomorphism often presides when issues of interpretive psychology is involved; and thus do we say when the lioness and her cubs are engaging in playful wrestling, that she is “teaching” them how to interact within acceptable boundaries; or when dogs race around with abandonment, […]

OPM Disability Retirement: “Doing the best we can”

March 8, 2018

Sometimes, it may be a true statement; at others, it may merely turn out to be a throwaway line that is cast about to deceive a decoy into the mix. What is the objective criteria in determining the truth of the statement? If a young lad is failing in school and the parents contemplate some form of incentivized punishment, […]

Early Retirement for Federal Workers with Disabilities: Progress

February 21, 2018

Whether as a noun or a verb, the definition remains a mirror-image of one another. Moreover, it is the implication that always makes one pause — of a juggernaut forward, always advancing, and where societal norms and interpretations forever seem to cast a judgment upon the lack thereof. […]

Federal Disability Retirement: The Trinkets We Hold Dear

August 8, 2015

If value of item determines retention of possession, then few trinkets would survive the test of economic viability; but a quick perusal of one’s home will often discover large caches of sentimental liabilities strewn throughout. What determines value, then? Is it the monetization of an item? Or perhaps the psychological attachment, combined with the economic forces in capitalism of supply and demand? […]

Federal Disability Retirement: Mastery of Life

July 28, 2015

It is what we all strive for; as depicted in cult followings and media outlets, it is a state of representation attained through travels to the Himalayas, or after years of struggling in a Zen monastery (and engaging in Tai chi battles with inept masked ninjas) and gaining unexplainable enlightenment (why couldn’t the same happen in the living room of one’s own home?). The truth is, the mastery of life is merely a mundane affair. […]

Federal Disability Retirement and the Price of Loyalty

May 22, 2015

Salinger’s character, Holden Caulfield, recognized the influence of movies, and the media in general. When used as a tool for political purposes, they mold and direct the issues to be discussed, the pathways of thoughts to be taken, and the passions to be experienced. Though we think we are libertarians within the secluded confines of our own minds, what actually occurs is that we fail to recognize the subtle influences of those forces which we rely upon so much for our daily focus and guidance. […]