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Humor columnist and author Dawn Weber calls herself “the Princess of Poor Choices,” “The Senora of Stupid Plans” and “The Queen of Questionable Schemes.”

“Yes — I am really good. At bad ideas,” says Weber, whose newest book, Black Dog, White Couch, and the Rest of My Really Bad Ideas,” is a laugh-out-loud confessional. “I’ll tell you about all of (my really bad ideas), beginning with the terrible choice of owning an ill-mannered black dog at the same time as a white couch, then obtaining another enormous, drooling dog — and several more white couches,” she says. “But wait! There’s more! Like the time I spent $800 on a 99-cent goldfish. And the time I super-glued mothballs to a tarp and almost killed my family. And almost every single thing I did in the 1980s.”

A follow-up to her first book, I Love You. Now Go Away: Confessions of a Woman with a Smartphone, her newest book “is a memoir-in-essays-in-idiocy, chock full of bad ideas, aversions to pants, and never-ending quests to get the hell out of Ohio. You will once again learn more about me than you ever wanted to know, and for that, I am once again very sorry.”

Dawn, a national award-winning humor columnist, Huffington Post contributor and author whose work has been published in six books, blogs at Lighten Up. Her "Lighten Up" column was a favorite in the Buckeye Lake Beacon, where she's been called the local love child of Dave Barry and Nora Ephron. She resides in Brownsville, Ohio (motto: Indoor Plumbing Optional) with her husband, kids, and freakishly enthusiastic dog, Suzie the Meth Lab. Her goals include thinner thighs, a nap, maybe a solo trip to Target.