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Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The Habit

Posted onSeptember 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

No, this is not about that peculiar creature that Tolkien created who used to rule the earth but now hides in little dirt hutches in the deep recesses of forests (don’t all children and adults who have read his works believe in their heart of hearts that Hobbits still exist, and we just don’t see them?); rather, this, too, is a creature of sorts, just not the imaginary creation that gave joy to so many. How is it that we come to learn it? Is there a numerical value that must be first ascribed before the regularity of X becomes a Habit-Y? […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Left to our own devices

Posted onMarch 11, 2017August 3, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

This is a world where loneliness prevails. Despite all of the “connectivity” that is bandied about, the fact is that the suffering of human relationships has been on the rise since the industrial revolution, and perhaps even before that. The proverbial term itself has taken on a double meaning […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Life’s wisdoms

Posted onNovember 30, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The term, “decapitalization” often refers to the deliberate and systematic process of imposing harsh government policies in order to alter the private sector’s hold upon society’s commercial entanglement and mercantile involvement. In some grammatical contexts, however, it can denote the reduction of capitalized lettering into “small” letters, and thereby change its appearance, import, and even “meaning”. e.e. cummings is a fine example of this. Or, on a “title page”, one would expect that the concept of “Life’s Wisdoms” would be capitalized, for essentially two main reasons: The first word, “Life”, is too great a theme not to ascribe the signification of it, as well as being the beginning part of the title; […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Government Employment: The Wonder of Functioning

Posted onNovember 13, 2015September 28, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The complexity of the human condition makes one wonder about the capacity, endurance and ability of this animal who has created such a dysfunctional, technologically sophisticated universe. From genetic predetermination of uncontrollable susceptibility to behavior patterns, diseases and addictive personalities, to environmental factors which condition and influence; what we eat; the wide spectrum of tolerance (or intolerance) to stress; medication regimens which would otherwise knock out an elephant, to modern prosthetic devices which makes the Six Million Dollar Man of the 70s a mere skeleton of technological innovation; and where this post-information age of constant data and stimuli bombardment is a never-ending stream of stresses; […] Read More …

Early Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Setting up the Parameter of an Argument

Posted onNovember 12, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What we argue depends upon identifying the criteria already established, which is why arguments will often become prolonged engagements of meandering shouting matches, thrown at cross purposes, never agreeing to disagree upon the elements which represent an actual conflict. How many wars have been fought because of a simple failure in identifying the issues; how many costly divorces originating from misunderstanding and loss of communication, and who suffers but the collateral damage issued to non-combatants who must witness the devastation wrought more by ego than by elevated principles worth contesting? […] Read More …