Schar Ward has used her fifty years of cleaning experience to write Coming Clean Dirty Secrets from a Professional Housecleaner, It's About Time, Teaching Children to Clean, and Are You a Junkaholic?, which she co-authored with her daughter Debra Varin. Schar wrote a monthly column for Dog Fancy magazine entitled Ask the Cleaning Expert. She was known as The Green Cleaning Lady on Twin Cities Live, a local television show, and has contributed to articles in Family Handyman magazine. Schar and Debra have entertained and educated attendees at Home and Garden shows nationwide. She lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, and happily teaches the world to clean.