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OPM Medical Retirement Law: The Editorial Process

Posted onJune 25, 2015October 25, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Every writer dreads the process; on the other side of the proverbial fence, it is the joyful perverseness of the editor, with markers in hand and metaphorical scissors and knives to slash and cut, the necessity of reducing and whittling away the creative volume of words forming descriptive paragraphs and the infancy of a birth of genius, or so one always thinks about one’s own work. Everyone has a story to tell. How cogent; whether systematic in logical sequence; the relevance of certain statements, sentences, and sometimes paragraphs and chapters, may undermine the greater purpose for which something is written. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: That Spare Tire

Posted onJune 23, 2015January 20, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

We rarely think about it; and it is somewhere “back there”, in the event of, in case, if it happens, as a contingency, as an insurance policy, for the rare occasion of a potential mishap. But with the modern ingenuity of reinforced rubber with a manufacturing process of innerliner calendering, one rarely even sees a car on the side of the road with a lone figure attempting to locate the spare tire, with the car unevenly perched upon a device secured in a dimensionally precarious manner, to change that flat tire. […] Read More …

Federal & USPS Disability Retirement: The Advantage of Persistence

Posted onJune 17, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

If there are innate, underlying underpinnings of genetic inlays which provide for greater advantages in the evolutionary progression for those who consider survival of the fittest to be the teleological force behind man’s advancement, then the character trait of persistence must be one such data entry. It is certainly a personality pre-condition for the meanest, most hostile and unrelenting individuals and organizations across the spectrum. Like the wild dog with the unbreakable jawbone, persistence is that trait where relenting is not an option, and where right or wrong is not the standard which guides or otherwise influences the decision-making process of an individual who embraces a course of action. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Chasm Between the “Process” and the End-Product

Posted onMay 26, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

One is often forewarned that, if you want to continue retaining certain foods and delectable delights of culinary desires, you should refrain from taking a tour of the manner, means and methodology of manufacturing the medium of modality. The “process” of attaining a final product is, in many instances, quite different from the “end product” displayed and delivered for public viewing. The latter constitutes all of the hard work, effort and refinements contained beneath and within the invisible undercoating which comprises the historical context of unspoken deeds; while the former is comprised of the aggregate of that which has been censored for public viewing. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Of Vultures Riding the Currents of Time

Posted onApril 29, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Watch the vultures float the currents of time, gliding high above, awaiting a trail of destruction behind. Universally, across the globe, they have similar outward appearances; with wide wingspans for the ability to soar and patiently await high above, watchful for death and decay to progressively come to fruition. Is it the scent of decay, or the fading gaze of death which attracts? Or, perhaps, weakness and state of debilitation has a natural aura which draws? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Dissipated Dream, Delayed

Posted onFebruary 14, 2015May 28, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

It is an enjoyment and pleasure of the highest order, and yet costs nothing; if remembered, the visual residue can be stored in the safety deposit boxes of one’s memory, “as if” it actually occurred; and retrieving the memories can be as vividly regurgitated in the virtual reality of its existence, as that of having actually been there. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement under FERS & CSRS: Reduction and Emergence

Posted onJanuary 26, 2015December 25, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The fear in most instances is that the latter will not follow upon the former; that the state of diminution will become permanent, and the potentiality promised by a subsequent stage of linear progression will instead reflect a downward spiral or, worse, remain in a state of stagnant immobility. And, indeed, neither in physics nor in human living, is there a stated and inevitable law of nature which mandates that following a period of reductionism, emergence of a greater state of affairs will occur. […]
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Federal Employees Disability Retirement Systems: The Quarantined Mind

Posted onJanuary 24, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

From early childhood, the necessity of imposing constraints and conformity produces the positive effect of a well-ordered society. But corollary and unforeseen consequences often occur, as in the quashing of creativity and mindsets which step outside of the proverbial “box”. The problem with people talking about thinking “outside of the box” is that such a thought process itself constitutes nothing more than mundane conventional wisdom. Those who have considered thoughts beyond the artifice of social concordance […]
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Postal and Federal Medical Retirement: The Concealment of Emoticons

Posted onNovember 18, 2014March 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

They replace the true face of humanity. Pasted with a quick tap of a computer keyboard, they allegedly represent the state of emotional being of a person, at a given time, within a granted context, in the course of an interplay accomplished in diatribes of virtual reality. Contrast such antiseptic encounters with the profound agony felt in Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief” (or sometimes otherwise entitled, “Misery”), and one begins to comprehend the depths of distancing depravity that people have fallen to in an attempt to bifurcate humanity from personal contact. […]

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