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.
Fair warning, I have a headache. At the end of this column you will have a headache. It is what it is. No one ever said life was fair. Life is pain. You just get used to it. Look, stop with the eyeball/forehead rubbing. It’s not going to help and you haven’t even seen the…
It is not often I use the words sleek and sexy to describe a home but this 1930s Austin home is not only sleek and sexy but it also has the right amount of gothy vibes to keep the saying “Keep Austin Weird” alive and well. Originally built in 1939, this Austin Mission-style home was…
Chapter 58 of the book “You Never Really Know What’s Going on Inside a House” takes us to Yardley, Pennsylvania. Yardley sits right on the border with New Jersey. During the American Civil War, Yardley was a station on the Underground Railroad, and now that we know those two little tidbits of information, the interior…
The largest sporting event in the world is barreling toward Dallas, and residents have two weeks to make their necessary preparations before soccer players and their fans touch down at Dallas Love Field. “If you can, rent your house out. Go away. Come back,” Arnold Watkins, airport superintendent with the City of Dallas, said facetiously…
One of the grossest sandwiches from childhood was a fluffernutter. It’s a sandwich that encompasses peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. You mash those two ingredients in between two pieces of white break and voila, you have a fluffernutter sandwich. Yeah, I didn’t eat that crap. I always found it hurl-worthy. Mark Boackle was always eating…
