Moving

One of the reason that PG’s blogs have a somewhat sporadic air is that he and Mrs. PG are selling Casa PG and downsizing.



We’ve lived in this iteration of Casa PG for almost 25 years. It is possible, even probable, to accumulate a great deal of “stuff” during 25 years and the PG’s are no exception to that likelihood.



We are selling the excess “stuff,” but even that is not an easy experience. A four-drawer filing cabinet is headed out the door in the next 15 minutes or so.



As anyone with a filing cabinet knows, a lot of things go into a filing cabinet that do not necessarily come out of the filing cabinet during the normal course of human affairs, so PG has been going through memories past while emptying out files of ancient origin.



For most attorneys, the easiest way to handle many years of accumulated case files is to sell their practice to a younger attorney and walk out the door.



A second alternative is to die and let the heirs handle it.



Neither of those is going to work for PG because he closed his practice some years ago after deciding there was no attorney within 50 miles, maybe more, who had the sort of practice PG developed over the years, advising author clients all over the world about their publishing contracts, prospective or already signed plus helping a handful of “new model” publishers who were reasonable enough to treat and pay authors fair royalties.



(Why, yes, PG did produce quite a run-on sentence just now. Mrs. Edna Lascelles, a much-loved elementary school teacher, would not approve. Practicing as an attorney for decades brings out the grammatical dark side lurking in nearly everybody.)