The email came from The Editor. “Good morning Barbara,” it said cheerily. “We were doing some planning for the coverage of the upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Toronto and Vancouver and your name came up …. Might you be interested in writing something?”

I did not know that by agreeing to this (I agree to anything that forces me to exercise my writing muscle) I would be buried by thousands upon thousands of videos, lyrics, articles and columns worldwide. Never mind the inevitable university courses and theses.