Meadow Rue Merrill is an award-winning Maine journalist and the author of the inspirational memoir "Redeeming Ruth: Everything Life Takes, Love Restores." Meadow began her career as a reporter for The Times Record, a daily newspaper in Brunswick, Maine, covering shipbuilding, small-town politics, and education. Over the following eight years, she regularly corresponded for The Boston Globe, while raising kids, mentoring young moms, and folding mountains of laundry. In 2006, she and her family adopted Ruth, an abandoned baby with profound disabilities from Uganda--an experience that changed her family and opened their hearts to other people with disabilities. Most recently, Meadow has written for The New York Times, Harvard University, and TMeadow Rue Merrill is an award-winning Maine journalist and the author of the inspirational memoir "Redeeming Ruth: Everything Life Takes, Love Restores." Meadow began her career as a reporter for The Times Record, a daily newspaper in Brunswick, Maine, covering shipbuilding, small-town politics, and education. Over the following eight years, she regularly corresponded for The Boston Globe, while raising kids, mentoring young moms, and folding mountains of laundry. In 2006, she and her family adopted Ruth, an abandoned baby with profound disabilities from Uganda--an experience that changed her family and opened their hearts to other people with disabilities. Most recently, Meadow has written for The New York Times, Harvard University, and The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. She also has regular columns with The Portland Press Herald, Maine’s largest newspaper, and Down East magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Every week her inspirational blog and newspaper column "Faith Notes," reaches 25,000 readers. Meadow writes for children and adults from a little house in the big woods of midcoast Maine. All personal proceeds from "Redeeming Ruth" benefit orphans and people with disabilities in Uganda....more