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.

Storybook Gnome Home is Unique House Porn

By Mimi Perez / August 24, 2022 /

“Storybook home coming to life” is the perfect description for the home featured in this week’s column. I have lost track of the number of times I have mentioned my never ending desire to have magical woodland creatures come to my home to clean my bathroom, wash my floors and cook a couple of meals. …

Double-Wide Trailer Equals Double Disaster

By Mimi Perez / August 17, 2022 /

My husband made for the perfect source for this week’s column. In his early years his dad worked in the oil industry and that required a lot of moving. Their solution to housing was to simply have their home hitched up and moved from town to town. Yeah, my husband and his siblings were the…

Cali Bungalow Answers Lingering Question

By Mimi Perez / August 10, 2022 /

There are times in your life when stars align and lingering questions get answered. One of my lingering questions was answered when I saw the home featured in this week’s column. You see, when my husband and I bought our current home, it was in desperate need of repair. You could poke holes in the…

Solid Gold: This Zaddy Daddy is Selling His Nevada Pleasure Palace

By Mimi Perez / August 3, 2022 /

I learned the most fabulous new word the other day. The word is “zaddy.” I told you it is an awesome word. Zaddy is defined as “a sexually attractive man, especially an older one who is fashionable or charismatic.” My Spidey sense has me all a tingle. You are thinking, “Oh no Mimi, not one…

Travel These Alaska Sites to Awaken Your Spirit of Adventure

By Mimi Perez / August 2, 2022 /

Study after study has shown that taking a vacation is good for you, your brain, and your entire existence. After two and a half years of dealing with the pandemic, my husband and I jumped at the chance to take a vacation to Alaska. Good friends of ours asked us last December if we wanted…