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.
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…
If you have only sporadically read anything I have written, it has probably entailed my love for the State of California. It is a beautiful state with so much to see and to do. I long for the day when the Gusman and I can move there. The National Parks are fabulous and, if you…
This weekend I attended a Las Vegas show called MJ Live. MJ, of course, stands for Michael Jackson. Now I am a GenX’er through and through. Needless to say, Michael Jackson was my jam in high school along with Prince, Pat Benatar, the GoGo’s, and so on. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. My friend who attended…
Located outside Austin on the northern edge of the Texas Hill Country, the City of Georgetown is beautiful by many accounts, but a trip to historic downtown Georgetown offers what’s known by travel guides and reviewers as the most beautiful town square in Texas. The 1911 Williamson County Courthouse is a stunning testament to Beaux-Arts…
