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Verastic

Authentic conversations about culture, motherhood, divorce, black excellence, humor, and style!

Biko, Stop Calling Me On Facebook!

Biko, Stop Calling Me On Facebook!

For a blogger - especially a lifestyle one who shares her life online - I have a love-hate relationship with social media. As you know (or maybe you're new and you don't know), when I started blogging, I was semi-anonymous. I blogged with my real name, but I never showed my face. There was no picture of me on the internet either. I know this because I searched very frequently. I used to do posts about what people searched for on Google that made them land on Verastic, and searching for my Read More

Vera Ezimora, The American Visa Granter

American Visa

Right now, right this minute, I have random people sending me What’s App messages on my phone about the status of the help I’m rendering them for their US Visa. Who are these people, and why do they think I can be their path to the abroad, you ask? Well, you can thank my daddy for that. While I was in Nigeria last year, my daddy made it a point to remind everyone that I was that his American daughter he had been talking about since. And when some people asked him if I could help them, he Read More

Don’t Speak To Me In The Grocery Line.

Don’t Speak To Me In The Grocery Line.

Okay, I’m just going to put this out there for the universe to know. It’s not that I’m mean or unfriendly or a snob. But I’m what you’d call a sometimes-I-just-want-to-be-left-alone kind of girl. I consider myself an introverted extrovert. Sure, I like to attend social events and chat and be silly with my friends, but after that, I really just want to go home and be left alone. And that, my Sweet Potatoes, is exactly why I don’t want to start a conversation while I’m standing on (in?) the line Read More

I’ve Been A Bad Blogger (And Vlogger)

I’ve Been A Bad Blogger (And Vlogger)

Sweet Potatoes! If you are a regular Sweet Potato, then you'd have probably noticed the embarrassing scarcity of new posts in the past few weeks. Please forgive me. I typically don't like to come here and give you half-news, unless I really, really have to. So I apologize for the half-news I'm about to deliver to you today, but I just need to explain my absence a bit.  Half-news = news that says something like, "I'm working on something, but I can't tell you about it yet ..." The Read More

I Stopped Using Deodorant, And You Won’t Believe What Happened!

I Stopped Using Deodorant, And You Won’t Believe What Happened!

It's true, I stopped using deodorant. In an episode of Verastic Life - I don't remember which episode now - I had mentioned that I had a boil in my armpit. Gross, I know, but bear with me. It was not the first time I had a boil there, but it was the first time that the boil was so big and painful. Usually, I'd have a pimple-sized boil once in a blue moon, and it would give me no trouble at all and would clear up by itself in a fear days. Not this time. This one was so painful, and it took its Read More

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