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Oct 23, 2024 | 
indyweek.com | Maggie Cooper
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ wide-ranging and intimate debut essay collection, Miss Southeast—released in September from Curbstone Books—is a portrait of the artist as a young person, tracing the author’s coming of age to both queerness and writing.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
indyweek.com | Maggie Cooper
Rogers, who was born in Greensboro, is the author of “Miss Southeast,” a new essay collection about coming-of-age as a queer person in the South.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Megan Giddings |Clare Beams |Maggie Cooper
Reading Lists These authors imagine the radical possibilities of a place that prioritize marginalized genders, instead of men It’s one thing for a book to pass the Bechdel Test or give readers a glimpse inside Virginia Woolf’s room of one’s own—it’s another for a book to let that room extend from cover to cover. After spending far too many of my school years reading books about cis boys and men, as an adult, I’ve gravitated toward books about the rest of us, and I’m particularly fascinated...
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
christianity.com | Maggie Cooper
Choosing Joy on the Hard DaysBy: Maggie Meadows Cooper"Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!" - Habakkuk 3:17-18 NLTIt is raining. Again. It feels like it's been raining for ten years straight here in Alabama.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
kpdq.com | Maggie Cooper
Choosing Joy on the Hard DaysBy: Maggie Meadows Cooper"Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!" - Habakkuk 3:17-18 NLTIt is raining. Again. It feels like it's been raining for ten years straight here in Alabama.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Maggie Cooper
When I read an article in last week’s Times entitled ‘Ten million in the U.K. take statins – I was reluctant to do so, until now’ by Dr. Mark Porter, I raised an eyebrow and decided to read on. The strapline to the headline read: “Why I have decided that the risks associated with the drugs are now worth taking to control my cholesterol” to which my immediate sceptical reaction was, “I wonder how much he is being paid to write this?”There is much debate about statins and their benefits.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Maggie Cooper
A few days ago, I saw a Facebook post that said “Parents: spend less time removing the mountains in your child’s life, and spend more time teaching them how to climb. You will not always be there…the mountains will.” It made me think about a video of my son trying to climb a small slide when he was around 18 months old. I was filming him, encouraging him to climb as he was straining to figure out how to hold on and pull himself up.
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May 31, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Maggie Cooper
Well-conducted clinical trials are essential for us to advance medical care. Full disclosure of the results will improve the public’s confidence in the effectiveness of new treatments, improve participation in clinical trials and benefit all of us – but only if they really give a true picture of the results and what they actually mean. In 2022, the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) put out a consultation related to the legislation around clinical trials.
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May 27, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Maggie Cooper
About 15 years ago, one of the runners in our training group announced that he was going on a carbohydrate free diet. I thought he was mad. Initially, I thought he was just giving up sugar, but when questioned he said he was also giving up rice, potatoes, pasta, bread – basically all carbohydrate. This simply didn’t make any sense; it was crazy. Where was he going to get his energy from? How would he be able to run?
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May 21, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Maggie Cooper
As I make my way home from work, I occasionally catch a glimpse of the headlines on a fellow commuter’s newspaper. Recently there seem to have been a lot of scary headlines relating to whooping cough, such as ‘Pregnant women urged to get vaccinated amid surge in whooping cough cases’ and ‘More babies could die from whooping cough, says vaccination expert’.
