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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Avoiding the anarchy of thoughtless acts

Posted onAugust 25, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Life requires acting; successful living demands thoughtful acts. Every good stage manager recognizes the signs; there are those who float through the script, with nary a cognitive engagement; others who involve themselves with an exhaustive turmoil of stipends unpaid; and still, those who think that talent alone will carry one through, despite the mediocrity which has surfaced unabashed, and where fingerprints left behind of tattered devastation betraying the lack of success. Do we ever really “get over” our own ignorance or arrogance? It is said that the two go hand-in-hand, like cousins […] 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 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 Long Goodbye

Posted onApril 17, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The relegation to the basement office; the loss of niceties with coworkers; the negation of superlatives from higher ups; the clues become overt, blatant and uninviting. Long goodbyes are often fertile ground for the souring of relationships forged over decades, and human interactions which reveal a perversity once thought uncommon. Does the past count for anything, anymore? […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement Lawyer: Drawers and Other Hideaways

Posted onApril 4, 2015January 19, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Whether cabinets and chests were created for neatness of housekeeping, or to bifurcate the clutter of consciousness, should be left up to anthropologists and social commentators. Facebook, too, and Social Media, the inability to resist adding to the clatter and superficiality of what we say, what we collect, and how we amass, both information and items we choose to gather; does it all reveal the historical backdrop of the Mesozoic era, from whence we all originate? […] Read More …