Dawn Weber is a wife of one (she thinks) a mother of two (that she knows of) and a co-author of "My Funny Valentine: America's Most Hilarious Writers Take on Love, Romance and Other Complications." She blogs at http://lightenupweber.blogspot.com/ and writes the "Lighten Up!" newspaper column in the Buckeye Lake Beacon, for which she won the 2011 National Society of Newspaper Columnists third place, humor award. No one is sure how this happened.She was born a poor white child in Cincinnati. Despite her best efforts, she is still poor, still white and definitely still in Ohio (dammit!)She received a bachelor's degree from Kent State University, where she majored in flammable, piece-of-shit cars and cheap beer.Many towns around the Buckeye State (dammit!) have served as her home, but currently she resides in Brownsville (Motto: Indoor Plumbing Optional) with the husband, kids and an ever-changing series of dirty, ill-mannered pets.She's spent the last 20 years being grossly underpaid and unappreciated in a wide variety of communications positions at newspapers, corporations and state government. Her goals include thinner thighs, a nap, maybe a solo trip to Walmart.She works. She mothers. She still drinks cheap beer. She wonders why she's writing in the third person right now.She thinks she'll go take a nap.