Being cognizant of the importance of exercise ... And today is a good day to take a short walk. Leslie Kouba is a columnist for cleveland.com.

She defended herself with the same excuses she used in her texts to me: She was running late; she’d run into traffic; she would be there in another 5 minutes (sometimes at 15-minute intervals).

Continuing to dance and sing her way through the monologue, Brunson was joined on stage by “Short N’ Sweet” songstress Sabrina Carpenter, who joked about their mutual experiences being short.