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FERS Disability Retirement: The Inevitability of Change

July 31, 2019

It is a tautology; for, “inevitable” encapsulated and embraces the term “change”, and one presumes that, in applying and comprehending the word “change”, there is a sense of inevitability contained within it. Thus do we assume certain truths which naturally follow: If you don’t like the weather, just wait a moment (for, the natural course of the universe dictates that the weather will change over time); if you are dissatisfied with your life today, ride it out […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Discarded Lives

July 8, 2019

It is not a determination which one makes about one’s self; one cannot “discard” one’s own life anymore than you can assert the existence of a twin brother merely because you see an image of yourself in the mirror. One can, of course, do all sorts of things that are deemed detrimental to one’s own self-interest — of self harm; of abandonment of a career; of making bad decisions and refusing to follow sound advice, etc. […]

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: Footprints in the snow

May 21, 2019

Snow makes a flashlight irrelevant. Even without a moon to shine, and of clouds to mask the twinkling stars, somehow the pure whiteness allows for visual acuity. At dawn, the footprints betray the activity that once was; and the current inactivity shadowed by the early morning yawn makes one wonder: who noticed, and what if I were standing quietly under the elm tree, making myself a part of the stiff objects in the wintry twilight? […]

OPM Medical Retirement under FERS: The Promise

March 21, 2019

Can you make a promise to yourself? What would that look like? Would it be valid and binding? If not, how would we “prove” it? Perhaps in a similar manner as Karl Popper’s “falsification” approach — of being able to come up with conditions under which a theory or a posited application can be “falsified”? Take the following hypothetical: A man sits in a cafe and is clearly upset; perhaps he makes unconscious heaving sounds, and tears stream down his face. […]

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The house next door

November 24, 2018

It is the one that follows the same comfortable convention for all these many years — of never knowing the intimate details; a wave of the hand every now and again; of fleeting appearances on various days, such as recycling, garbage and the occasional Saturday when the in-laws from out-of-state come to visit on Thanksgiving, or a birthday, or perhaps when a tragedy occurs and the sudden appearance in the driveway that is filled with cars never before seen. […]

Early Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: The chaos of life

October 29, 2018

The Biblical reality depicted in the very first verses reflects a reality more real than most would suppose, and for those who dismiss the ancient Books as merely relics of a superstitious past and thus irrelevant for modernity’s wake of technological sophistication, perhaps a redux and revisitation is in order. Most of life is chaos; or, to put it more starkly, the chaotic lives we lead are the rule, and not the exception. […]

OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: Coordination

September 19, 2018

Lack of it brings out the awkwardness of disjointedness; sometimes, it can be compensated by height or other attributes, but even then, it results in lack of efficiency, at best, and a danger to self or others at its worst. Coordination is necessary not only for efficiency, but for effectiveness, as well. Try and remember when you first began learning how to operate a motor vehicle: […]

Filing for OPM Disability Retirement: Palatable possibilities

August 10, 2018

We often hear of that which is “possible”, then immediately pause to consider the probabilities of such declared possibilities. For, isn’t it possible that there are martians on the far side of the moon, or that we all live in a dream, dreamt by the fragile whisperings of a butterfly, or that everything that we see, hear and experience is just nothing more than pure bosh, […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Figuring it all out

July 19, 2018

We all try and do it. Somehow, pride’s fall and the fool’s failure arrives by way of the solitary figure trying to go it alone. Friendship never had a chance, and the neighbor’s mended fences never allowed for any conversation of depth beyond the wave of the hand or the occasional “hello, how are you” — punctuated by a quick about-face and racing with terror into the sanctuary of one’s home. […]

Legal Representation OPM Disability Retirement: A good turn

March 3, 2018

At what point does a “good” turn transform into a negative? Can one help so much so that dependency becomes the habit and negates the “goodness” that was once always a part of the deed? Isn’t “going to work” a “good” thing? When does it turn bad? Is there ever a point where the quality of X becomes diluted so much so by the quantitative increase of the primary identifying ingredient of X to where the essence of X becomes negative-X because of too much X within X? […]