Jeremy!
@dadnomad.bsky.social
Here to connect and to stay afloat. Married. Dad of 2. Hiker of trails. Adorer of music & movies. Nomadic wanderer of the exvangelical wilds. Writing enthusiast. Carpe of the diem. https://open.substack.com/pub/jeremywingert79
If you ever move to the capital of Montana and set up a little shop where you weave handled picnic food containers, I recommend naming your business...
Helena Handbasket
Helena Handbasket
January 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM
If you ever move to the capital of Montana and set up a little shop where you weave handled picnic food containers, I recommend naming your business...
Helena Handbasket
Helena Handbasket
📽️ My top 8 movies of 2025 📽️
#4-8, in no order:
Sinners
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
Wake Up Dead Man
Final Destination: Bloodlines
#1-3, in descending order:
🥉 Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
🥈 One Battle After Another (PTA)
🥇 Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
#4-8, in no order:
Sinners
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
Wake Up Dead Man
Final Destination: Bloodlines
#1-3, in descending order:
🥉 Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
🥈 One Battle After Another (PTA)
🥇 Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
December 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📽️ My top 8 movies of 2025 📽️
#4-8, in no order:
Sinners
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
Wake Up Dead Man
Final Destination: Bloodlines
#1-3, in descending order:
🥉 Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
🥈 One Battle After Another (PTA)
🥇 Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
#4-8, in no order:
Sinners
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
Wake Up Dead Man
Final Destination: Bloodlines
#1-3, in descending order:
🥉 Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
🥈 One Battle After Another (PTA)
🥇 Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
Q: What do you get when you put
explosives in a wintry sculpture
of NBA legend Michael Jordan?
A: A bomb in a Bull snowman.
explosives in a wintry sculpture
of NBA legend Michael Jordan?
A: A bomb in a Bull snowman.
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Q: What do you get when you put
explosives in a wintry sculpture
of NBA legend Michael Jordan?
A: A bomb in a Bull snowman.
explosives in a wintry sculpture
of NBA legend Michael Jordan?
A: A bomb in a Bull snowman.
I will never understand how God sending his "Son" to earth isn't a polytheistic belief. It's 2 distinct beings: One is the Father, sacrificing someone he loves; and one is the Son, enduring something awful for a noble reason.
My mind is simply unable to believe in the Trinity.
My mind is simply unable to believe in the Trinity.
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I will never understand how God sending his "Son" to earth isn't a polytheistic belief. It's 2 distinct beings: One is the Father, sacrificing someone he loves; and one is the Son, enduring something awful for a noble reason.
My mind is simply unable to believe in the Trinity.
My mind is simply unable to believe in the Trinity.
Feel like tossing a little support to an underpaid dad who writes on the side in the pre-dawn darkness about fatherhood & mental health & concert road trips and who would never dream of outsourcing even one (1) word of his writing to AI?
Then sign up for my Substack! ✍🏼
jeremywingert79.substack.com
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jeremywingert79.substack.com
Dad, Nomad, Fighting Off the Sad | Jeremy | Substack
Ramblings and ruminations on all that keeps me afloat in this sad, wonderful, awful, and desperately beautiful world -- from mental health discoveries to fatherhood joys to nature exploration to trave...
jeremywingert79.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Feel like tossing a little support to an underpaid dad who writes on the side in the pre-dawn darkness about fatherhood & mental health & concert road trips and who would never dream of outsourcing even one (1) word of his writing to AI?
Then sign up for my Substack! ✍🏼
jeremywingert79.substack.com
Then sign up for my Substack! ✍🏼
jeremywingert79.substack.com
One thing people never like to talk about is that FrankenBerry is misnamed. Please, everyone. Get it right.
It's TheCreatureBerry.
It's TheCreatureBerry.
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One thing people never like to talk about is that FrankenBerry is misnamed. Please, everyone. Get it right.
It's TheCreatureBerry.
It's TheCreatureBerry.
I view myself as a skilled writer & an impeccable proofreader. I take pride in being an English major with a command of the written word. I even won a spelling bee once!
And so I gasped in horror today when I saw the word "teached" on my screen, which I had just typed as the past tense of "teach."
And so I gasped in horror today when I saw the word "teached" on my screen, which I had just typed as the past tense of "teach."
December 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I view myself as a skilled writer & an impeccable proofreader. I take pride in being an English major with a command of the written word. I even won a spelling bee once!
And so I gasped in horror today when I saw the word "teached" on my screen, which I had just typed as the past tense of "teach."
And so I gasped in horror today when I saw the word "teached" on my screen, which I had just typed as the past tense of "teach."
The National Board of Jeremy has
[too early & with way too little data]
named the Top 6 Films of 2025:
Frankenstein
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
~ Honorable Mention ~
Final Destination: Bloodlines
[too early & with way too little data]
named the Top 6 Films of 2025:
Frankenstein
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
~ Honorable Mention ~
Final Destination: Bloodlines
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The National Board of Jeremy has
[too early & with way too little data]
named the Top 6 Films of 2025:
Frankenstein
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
~ Honorable Mention ~
Final Destination: Bloodlines
[too early & with way too little data]
named the Top 6 Films of 2025:
Frankenstein
Friendship
The Life of Chuck
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
~ Honorable Mention ~
Final Destination: Bloodlines
The Christmas music genre boasts some
of the most hauntingly beautiful, & also
some of the most nauseating, gratingly
soulless songs that were ever written.
For some odd reason, retail
stores play none of the former.
And almost nothing *but* the latter.
of the most hauntingly beautiful, & also
some of the most nauseating, gratingly
soulless songs that were ever written.
For some odd reason, retail
stores play none of the former.
And almost nothing *but* the latter.
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Christmas music genre boasts some
of the most hauntingly beautiful, & also
some of the most nauseating, gratingly
soulless songs that were ever written.
For some odd reason, retail
stores play none of the former.
And almost nothing *but* the latter.
of the most hauntingly beautiful, & also
some of the most nauseating, gratingly
soulless songs that were ever written.
For some odd reason, retail
stores play none of the former.
And almost nothing *but* the latter.
Hell is
other people
[who demonize
other people].
~ Sartre
[& Wingert]
other people
[who demonize
other people].
~ Sartre
[& Wingert]
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hell is
other people
[who demonize
other people].
~ Sartre
[& Wingert]
other people
[who demonize
other people].
~ Sartre
[& Wingert]
Normalize asking off work on Wednesday to go see Frankenstein at the local art-house theater & take a hike by yourself, solely because you have vacation time to burn & Guillermo del Toro is amazing & hiking is good for the soul.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Normalize asking off work on Wednesday to go see Frankenstein at the local art-house theater & take a hike by yourself, solely because you have vacation time to burn & Guillermo del Toro is amazing & hiking is good for the soul.
To me, parenting is — without a doubt — the single greatest joy on earth.
But if you’re an ardent fan of reading more than 2 pages of a book at a time, or if you greatly enjoy having adult conversations made up of uninterrupted sentences, I don’t necessarily recommend it.
But if you’re an ardent fan of reading more than 2 pages of a book at a time, or if you greatly enjoy having adult conversations made up of uninterrupted sentences, I don’t necessarily recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
To me, parenting is — without a doubt — the single greatest joy on earth.
But if you’re an ardent fan of reading more than 2 pages of a book at a time, or if you greatly enjoy having adult conversations made up of uninterrupted sentences, I don’t necessarily recommend it.
But if you’re an ardent fan of reading more than 2 pages of a book at a time, or if you greatly enjoy having adult conversations made up of uninterrupted sentences, I don’t necessarily recommend it.
Normalize:
~ embracing your current age,
~ looking forward to the next decade, &
~ forcefully rejecting the boring, stale belief that our best years are behind us & we should resent that we, just like every other being that ever lived, are ephemeral.
Enjoy your time here! 🌎
~ embracing your current age,
~ looking forward to the next decade, &
~ forcefully rejecting the boring, stale belief that our best years are behind us & we should resent that we, just like every other being that ever lived, are ephemeral.
Enjoy your time here! 🌎
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Normalize:
~ embracing your current age,
~ looking forward to the next decade, &
~ forcefully rejecting the boring, stale belief that our best years are behind us & we should resent that we, just like every other being that ever lived, are ephemeral.
Enjoy your time here! 🌎
~ embracing your current age,
~ looking forward to the next decade, &
~ forcefully rejecting the boring, stale belief that our best years are behind us & we should resent that we, just like every other being that ever lived, are ephemeral.
Enjoy your time here! 🌎
If a thing is artificial,
then it is not intelligent.
Intelligence, by definition,
can not be artificial.
What is human
is what is enduring
is what is valuable
is what is real.
And we are,
above all,
human.
then it is not intelligent.
Intelligence, by definition,
can not be artificial.
What is human
is what is enduring
is what is valuable
is what is real.
And we are,
above all,
human.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If a thing is artificial,
then it is not intelligent.
Intelligence, by definition,
can not be artificial.
What is human
is what is enduring
is what is valuable
is what is real.
And we are,
above all,
human.
then it is not intelligent.
Intelligence, by definition,
can not be artificial.
What is human
is what is enduring
is what is valuable
is what is real.
And we are,
above all,
human.
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I believe that someday, before my kids are grown, a reckoning will take place. The hyper-corrupt Trump & all his complicit sycophants will finally be brought low by the power of the judicial system, and by the righteous fury of we the people.
I *choose* to believe that is true.
I *choose* to believe that is true.
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I believe that someday, before my kids are grown, a reckoning will take place. The hyper-corrupt Trump & all his complicit sycophants will finally be brought low by the power of the judicial system, and by the righteous fury of we the people.
I *choose* to believe that is true.
I *choose* to believe that is true.
“AI, particularly generative AI, I am not interested... I’m 61 & I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak… Somebody wrote me an email, said: ‘What is your stance on AI?’ & my answer was very short. I said, ‘I’d rather die'."
~ Guillermo del Toro
~ Guillermo del Toro
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“AI, particularly generative AI, I am not interested... I’m 61 & I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak… Somebody wrote me an email, said: ‘What is your stance on AI?’ & my answer was very short. I said, ‘I’d rather die'."
~ Guillermo del Toro
~ Guillermo del Toro
Things I'm certifiably obsessed with:
~ Cereal
~ Movies
~ Box office
~ Park-hopping
~ Post-rock music
~ Ryan George videos
~ Deconstruction/exvie stuff
and by far the most important...
~ My sweet, radiant 9yo & 7yo kids 💞
~ Cereal
~ Movies
~ Box office
~ Park-hopping
~ Post-rock music
~ Ryan George videos
~ Deconstruction/exvie stuff
and by far the most important...
~ My sweet, radiant 9yo & 7yo kids 💞
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Things I'm certifiably obsessed with:
~ Cereal
~ Movies
~ Box office
~ Park-hopping
~ Post-rock music
~ Ryan George videos
~ Deconstruction/exvie stuff
and by far the most important...
~ My sweet, radiant 9yo & 7yo kids 💞
~ Cereal
~ Movies
~ Box office
~ Park-hopping
~ Post-rock music
~ Ryan George videos
~ Deconstruction/exvie stuff
and by far the most important...
~ My sweet, radiant 9yo & 7yo kids 💞
calling
autumn
fall
-is like-
calling
winter
decompose
-or like-
calling
spring
grow
🍃
autumn
fall
-is like-
calling
winter
decompose
-or like-
calling
spring
grow
🍃
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
calling
autumn
fall
-is like-
calling
winter
decompose
-or like-
calling
spring
grow
🍃
autumn
fall
-is like-
calling
winter
decompose
-or like-
calling
spring
grow
🍃
“Look at all these things out in the
world that I've never seen before!”
~ My 4yo girl at a park in 2022 💜
world that I've never seen before!”
~ My 4yo girl at a park in 2022 💜
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Look at all these things out in the
world that I've never seen before!”
~ My 4yo girl at a park in 2022 💜
world that I've never seen before!”
~ My 4yo girl at a park in 2022 💜
Here's a fun movie fact. The official title of the uber-popular Japanese anime film that made $100 million in 10 days of U.S. release is...
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity
Castle – Part 1: Akaza Returns
3 COLONS & 2 DASHES IN 1 TITLE!
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity
Castle – Part 1: Akaza Returns
3 COLONS & 2 DASHES IN 1 TITLE!
September 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Here's a fun movie fact. The official title of the uber-popular Japanese anime film that made $100 million in 10 days of U.S. release is...
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity
Castle – Part 1: Akaza Returns
3 COLONS & 2 DASHES IN 1 TITLE!
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity
Castle – Part 1: Akaza Returns
3 COLONS & 2 DASHES IN 1 TITLE!
One of my favorite words is scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt.
Scuttle
butt.
SCUTTLEBUTT.
Scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt.
Scuttle
butt.
SCUTTLEBUTT.
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of my favorite words is scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt.
Scuttle
butt.
SCUTTLEBUTT.
Scuttlebutt. Scuttlebutt.
Scuttlebutt.
Scuttle
butt.
SCUTTLEBUTT.
Autumn is the most glorious
season ever created.
(Except for spring,
obviously.)
season ever created.
(Except for spring,
obviously.)
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Autumn is the most glorious
season ever created.
(Except for spring,
obviously.)
season ever created.
(Except for spring,
obviously.)
"Hell is empty, and
all the devils
are here."
~ Shakespeare, The Tempest
all the devils
are here."
~ Shakespeare, The Tempest
September 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Hell is empty, and
all the devils
are here."
~ Shakespeare, The Tempest
all the devils
are here."
~ Shakespeare, The Tempest
Dismount the news cycle.
It has no functioning brakes.
It has no functioning brakes.
September 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Dismount the news cycle.
It has no functioning brakes.
It has no functioning brakes.