Reflections of an OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted onNovember 26, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

May all of the blog visitors and forum participants, past and present, and future ones who have yet to visit and contribute to this compendium of information relevant to Federal and Postal employees, set aside some time to celebrate this occasion for food, family and gatherings to “reconnect”, in giving thanks for the blessings received throughout the year, and for that last portion of succulent turkey which the uninvited uncle is wont to grab. Happy Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,

Robert R. McGill, Esquire

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted onNovember 24, 2011AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Triteness is not a quality of expression which one should engage in repeatedly. Such expressive lack of profundity, normally accomplished through overuse of a phrase or expression, results from laziness or a lack of effort in embracing the powerful tools of the English language. Thanksgiving succumbs to such triteness, […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted onNovember 24, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney

This is a special time for family and friends. I want to thank everyone — those who are my clients; those who have followed my blogs; those who have participated in the message boards […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Disability Retirement: Celebrating Labor Day

Posted onSeptember 5, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Part of celebrating Labor Day Weekend for Federal and Postal Employees under FERS & CSRS should be to reflect upon, and be proud of, the tremendous years of loyalty and commitment […] Read More …

The Jewel of One’s Imagination

Posted onJune 15, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We all reserve it; it is there in the collected recesses for our solitary solace, to be taken out in emergencies, in times of downtrodden moodiness or imposed, deafening thoughtfulness; when the technological busy-ness of the world implodes and stirs the angst […] Read More …

Change

Posted onApril 23, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Change is an inevitability. It is peculiar, isn’t it? It can be either a transitive or intransitive verb; and, as used here, a noun. The vicissitudes of life; the daily fluidity of events; fullness of being, the word-picture of a cornucopia […] Read More …

First Parable: The Lady, the Girl and the Stranger

Posted onJuly 30, 2008AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Once upon a time, there was a child with her mother, walking along a dirt road. It had just rained, and the mist in the air brushed delicately upon the mother and daughter as they trekked through the countryside. Their journey passed by some mud puddles freshly created by the rain. As they walked, they Read More …

Reflections Upon Law, Arête (ἀρετή), and the Banality of Life

Posted onMarch 29, 2008AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The practice of law is a peculiar exercise in combining the theoretical with the practical; in that sense, perhaps it is an anomaly in that the two disciplines rarely intersect, and the great divide between a conceptual discipline and a practical one is defied by the ‘practice’ of law. Indeed, the very phrase ‘practice of Read More …

Poetry, the Cab Driver, the Moon and a Life Well-Lived

Posted onMarch 29, 2008AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

As one grows older, hopefully the wisdom one possesses reaches an equivalency to the extent of gray in one’s hair, or the depth of wrinkles; and perhaps that wisdom is expanded in direct correlation to the differing breadth of perspectives and stories which one has encountered and collected throughout the years. By ‘stories’, I don’t Read More …