Mimi Perez
Mimi Perez is a freelance writer and photographer for CandysDirt.com who lives in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood located in northwest Dallas.
One of the reasons I became a journalist was to meet people from different walks of life and learn what makes them tick, what inspires them, what are their aspirations. Truly, people are fascinating if you take the time to listen when they tell you their stories. I got to do a lot of that…
So we pick up where we left off yesterday. Santa and Mrs. Claus decided to move and put their North Pole cottage on the market asking a cool $1.207 million. They decided they were done with wearing mukluks and 20 pounds of clothes to stay warm. So they downsized, packed up their remaining wares and…
The song that best encapsulates the act of selling your home and moving is “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash. At one point during the song, the lead singer just screams. If that doesn’t capture downsizing then I do not know what does. Let’s look at some lyrics. “This indecision’s bugging…
A long time friend was enchanted with mermaids. From the tailfin to the lore of mermaids in general, being a mermaid, swimming with mermaids was something she always wanted to do. Bingo! Now that we’re on the same page, I’ll continue. Now, being a woman in her mid-40s she thought her opportunity to swim with…
A good friend of mine just loves, loves, loooovvveeessss Hallmark Christmas movies. She simply cannot get enough of them. You know the movies I’m talking about. Typically, some city slicker returns home for Christmas to the quaint little hometown from whence they broke free so many years earlier, only to fall in love with a…
