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.
Water slides are awesome. The person who came up with the concept of pushing a ton of water down a tube and then throwing themselves down said tube should win a major award of some sort. You start out kind of slow. You build momentum with every twist and curve. You pick up even more…
It is Halloween week, my people. Yea! What a fun week awaits with costumes, pranks, and scary movies. Being a part of Gen X, I can honestly say we grew up with some of the greatest scary movies. One of the all-time best was A Nightmare on Elm Street. Good ol’ Freddy Krueger terrorizing innocent…
Funny story. As I was going through the listing for this week’s column I was reminded of the imagery in the movie Carrie which is pretty intense. I am talking about the original movie with Sissy Spacek. Anyway, when I was done looking at the listing I took my dog out one last time before…
My family has always enjoyed Halloween. When my daughter was really young she insisted on dressing up as a different animal associated with Halloween. The vampire bat costume was easy to make but I still find feathers from when we made her owl costume. It was great but oy vey, all the feathers. It was…
Owning a haunted house can be a scary proposition for some. My point of reference when thinking about a haunted house is the movie Poltergeist. I am talking about the original movie with JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson. Not only did those ghosts kidnap one of their daughters but it ended up sucking the…
