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FERS & CSRS Medical Retirement: Dickens, Salinger & Capote

Posted onMarch 15, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is always dangerous to offer an overview of complexity; simplicity of explanation often teeters upon the precipice of superficiality, and when it comes to the psychology of people, we normally get it wrong. Yet, we can try. For Dickens, the childhood experiences of destitution and humble beginnings allowed for a magnification of love for humanity borne of cruelty in childhood. In Salinger, we see the pent-up destruction of a young man whose anguish was molded through sights, sounds and experiences devastated by war. […] Read More …

How to Handle an OPM Disability Retirement Claim: Tempered Approaches

Posted onMay 13, 2015April 26, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Life is often a linear experience of extremes; this is an age when expectations call for responses of excess, and not of minimization. There is no sense of an “eye for an eye” — a proportional sense of fair play, or of deescalation of conflict; rather, as we become callous and conditioned to shock therapy of the cultural sort, so there is little to amaze or to surprise, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Attorney: Playgrounds and the Collective Institution of Fair Play

Posted onMarch 18, 2015March 9, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

We learn it early on; the unstated rules, the lines which may not be crossed, and to be weary of those whose reputation precedes them for the blatant disregard of both. How they are learned; what they are; whether explicitly stated or impliedly conveyed; few, if any, have a memory where the Head Mistress of the Universe of Playgrounds sat us all down and said, […] Read More …