My Uncle Henry's Extreme Hospitality

Do unto others.

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

My dashing Uncle Henry, on right and wearing a hat, in around 1972.

Good morning, fair reader.

On a recent afternoon my mother sent this text to my siblings and me:

Good morning. Yesterday Henry found mice droppings on kitchen table and told us he was g…