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OPM Medical Retirement: Life’s mortgage

Posted onNovember 9, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We all know well the concept behind it – of borrowing against the object itself, in order to “half-possess”, occupy and enjoy it presently against a future promise that it will be paid over an incremental period of time. Sort of like life itself, or at least of one’s health. Borrowed time; life’s mortgage; banking on a better tomorrow; relying upon a promise being kept based upon today’s favorable circumstances over a lengthy period of time well into a future we can never be certain about. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Representation: The defeating question

Posted onJuly 28, 2017November 16, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the question itself which is often “telling”; it informs us of where the line of answering and posited queries is likely to take us. It is like the map that guides in a certain direction, the compass that informs one of the vantage point of one’s existence or the gravitational pull which pulls in order to remain cohesive with other heavenly bodies; […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: The Initial Stage

Posted onJanuary 10, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are multiple stages in a Federal Disability Retirement process. The term “process” is used here, because it is too often the case that Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who engage this administrative procedure, fail to realize that there are multiple potential stages to the entire endeavor. That is a mistake that can come back to haunt. One should prepare the initial stage “as if” – as if the Second, Reconsideration Stage of the process may need to be anticipated, and further, invoking the rights accorded through an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement from Federal Government Employment: Forms, Formats and Conformity

Posted onNovember 2, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Forms rule; formats pervade; conformity to previously formatted forms are imposed both by the forms themselves, as well as through the delimiting presentation proposed by the formatted appearance. Forms represent bureaucratization of an industry once known as a mere whippersnapper, but which now has grown into a behemoth and overpowers all with its industrial strength and dominance. Formats demanded by such Leviathans of leveraged leaders in lapidary loquaciousness lead leftovers left scratching lonesome and lackluster lilliputians […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Those Fall Leaves

Posted onSeptember 23, 2015November 21, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The time of change and spectrums of colors beyond mere rainbows of solitude; it is often poetically described as the season of deterioration, of old age before the winter of mortality. Fall brings about a freshness of cooler winds, a precursor of foretelling that those dog days of summer have come to an end. Ever look at the fallen leaves and mistake them for something else — an animal, perhaps, or a figure of caustic imagination? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Posted onAugust 18, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The 1956 version of the film (the only one worth watching) was in black & white, and created a sensation among French Existentialists for the greatest horror committed upon a human being: to strip one of all human emotion, and transform the person into a robotic automaton of sorts. Camus’ novel, The Stranger, reveals a similar theme through the titular character, Meursault, where the absurdity of life, the indifference of humanity, all serve to compel him to commit a murder without reason or rationale, in a universe without emotion — until the very end when, faced with the certainty of the guillotine, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Lawyer: Time Was, When…

Posted onJune 1, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Reminiscences represent a harbinger of the state of existence and the mental attitude of individuals; once engaged, they reveal the past-oriented focus, as opposed to the future dreams of youth. Do young people reminisce? At what point does one engage in such leisurely exercise? And the spectrum of historical context, or the lack thereof — does the limited span of a past life determine the narrow course of future remembering? […] Read More …