Verastic https://verastic.com/site Recklessly authentic. Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 41043326 Don’t Ask ChatGPT This Unless You’re Ready To Be Dragged By The Eyebrows https://verastic.com/site/personal/dont-ask-chatgpt-this-unless-youre-ready.html Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:12:00 +0000 https://verastic.com/site/?p=18612 Don’t ask ChatGPT this. I repeat, don’t ask ChatGPT this. ChatGPT will drag you by the eyebrows if you ask it her this. Today’s story is a clear case of trouble dey sleep, iyanga dey go wake am up. I’m not sure how you’ve been using ChatGPT, if at all, but I’ve been having someRead More

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]]> 18612 It’s Been Five Years Since We Went Home For Two Weeks https://verastic.com/site/personal/its-been-five-years-since-we-went-home-for-two-weeks.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/its-been-five-years-since-we-went-home-for-two-weeks.html#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:56:00 +0000 https://verastic.com/site/?p=18572 Five years ago, in March 2020, the company I worked for announced that we would work from home for the next two weeks while this COVID thing blows over. It was a Friday. We were told not to take too much stuff home because it was only two weeks after all. The temperature of theRead More

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]]> https://verastic.com/site/personal/its-been-five-years-since-we-went-home-for-two-weeks.html/feed 4 18572 I Answered Verastic’s Call https://verastic.com/site/personal/i-answered-verastics-call.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/i-answered-verastics-call.html#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:48:10 +0000 https://verastic.com/site/?p=18550 This is a strange title, even for me. This past Saturday, I sat at my dining table and wrote several pages in my journal. In it, I shared that recently, I felt like writing. Writing here. I have not really felt this way for a long time, and I am not sure why I didRead More

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]]> 18458 2023 Was On Autopilot + Mental Health Support https://verastic.com/site/personal/2023-mental-health-support.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/2023-mental-health-support.html#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:15:00 +0000 https://verastic.com/site/?p=18428 Funmie says I need therapy. She’s probably right. I should probably be exploring mental health support. So much has happened in the past few years, but losing my mom tops them all. My mom passed away in April 2022, and then, the rest of the year just became busy with other changes and realities inRead More

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]]> https://verastic.com/site/social/let-me-tell-you-about-ahmed-taha.html/feed 4 17956 It’s Been A Year Since My Mom Transitioned https://verastic.com/site/personal/mom-transitioned.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/mom-transitioned.html#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://verastic.com/?p=17871 We all die, right? I mean, we all know that eventually, we all die. We do not leave here alive. We are born, we live, and then, we die. Or in my dad’s favorite words, “we perish.” I don’t like perish by the way. We’re not fruits. As of the typing of this post, it’sRead More

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]]> https://verastic.com/site/personal/mom-transitioned.html/feed 2 17871 Conversations With God About My Dating Life https://verastic.com/site/personal/conversations-with-god-about-my-dating-life.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/conversations-with-god-about-my-dating-life.html#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:08:16 +0000 https://verastic.com/?p=17733 Dating can be one kind. Sometimes, it feels like a cool breeze on a hot summer day, and sometimes, it feels like learning the anatomy of a dinosaur in Mandarin. As it came to pass, I was actively trying and failing to learn the anatomy of a dinosaur in Mandarin. The harder I tried, theRead More

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]]> https://verastic.com/site/personal/conversations-with-god-about-my-dating-life.html/feed 12 17733 I Lost My Mom https://verastic.com/site/personal/i-lost-my-mom.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/i-lost-my-mom.html#comments Thu, 26 May 2022 11:29:00 +0000 http://verastic.com/?p=17064 I cannot tell you how much time I spent agonizing over the title of this post. This post that I promised to publish last week Monday but failed to do, and it was not for lack of trying. This post that I do not want to write and cannot believe that I’m writing. In myRead More

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]]> https://verastic.com/site/personal/i-lost-my-mom.html/feed 21 17064 Let Me Tell You About The Black Woman Who Humiliated Me https://verastic.com/site/personal/let-me-tell-you-about-the-black-woman-who-humiliated-me.html https://verastic.com/site/personal/let-me-tell-you-about-the-black-woman-who-humiliated-me.html#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:42:00 +0000 http://verastic.com/?p=16694 The post Let Me Tell You About The Black Woman Who Humiliated Me appeared first on Verastic.

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