My latest trick for cheering up.

Cleaning out the basement is fun — fun I say!

An old cartoon of mine from the basement. (Angry wives are funny!)

This is Emily Writes Back, an advice column for brilliant people, by cartoonist and essayist Emily Sanders Hopkins.

Good morning, lovely people!

I woke up as sweaty as a cotton mill worker, as sweaty as a fat man wearing a wig at a Constitutional Convention — well, let’s be real, as swea…