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.
Really good friends of ours hail from Iowa. They are the kindest, most hardworking, sincerest people you would ever want to meet. They call dinner supper, were raised on farms, and epitomize the best of Midwestern values. Like the majority of empty nesters, they have been working on their home. They did a limestone wash…
Editor’s Note: Our Wednesday WTF columnist, Mimi Perez, is taking a break from her regularly scheduled rundown in ridiculous real estate. To whet your whistle until a new column next week, here’s a reprise of one home that should walk the plank. Avast ye hearties! Tis’ be a new year for resolutions and good times.…
There are times when the stars and planets align and everything just falls into place. It does not happen often but when it does you have to appreciate the moment. A good example of this is a funny joke. Case in point is the home featured in this week’s column. As I was flipping through…
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship.” There is not an adult who grew up in the 1970s that does not know the theme song to Gilligan’s Island. In your head, you were singing those lyrics. It…
Remember that last family road trip where everyone in the car got a case of jimmy legs at the same time? Yes, they went to the bathroom before you left but now, everyone was at a 10 on the pee-pee scale and you had no choice but to pull into the dreaded truck stop. Yeah,…