JoAnn Streeter Shade is the author of twenty books, and besides her contributions to the Times-Gazette, she also writes regularly for Salvation Army publication. She has ministered in Salvation Army congregations and social service programs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and has served at North Coast Family Foundation, a Christian counseling center in Northeast Ohio. She is married to Larry, is the mother of three adult sons, Greg, Drew and Dan, and Lauren, a beloved daughter-in-law. She is Nana to the lovely Madelyn Simone and the delightful Elizabeth Holiday, who often make an appeara...