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.
Dallas has a lot of neighborhoods with a lot of different styles of homes. The uniting factor throughout the city is the Parks and Rec Department and the Office of Arts and Culture. Those two departments do not just give us a reason to like living in Dallas, they give us a reason to love…
When the year began, I thought this might be the time when I run out of crazy homes to write about. I mean, how many living rooms can there be with stripper poles so you can workout while you watch “The Price is Right”? Apparently there were enough that I have reached a point where…
One of the reasons I became a journalist was to meet people from different walks of life and learn what makes them tick, what inspires them, what are their aspirations. Truly, people are fascinating if you take the time to listen when they tell you their stories. I got to do a lot of that…
So we pick up where we left off yesterday. Santa and Mrs. Claus decided to move and put their North Pole cottage on the market asking a cool $1.207 million. They decided they were done with wearing mukluks and 20 pounds of clothes to stay warm. So they downsized, packed up their remaining wares and…
The song that best encapsulates the act of selling your home and moving is “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash. At one point during the song, the lead singer just screams. If that doesn’t capture downsizing then I do not know what does. Let’s look at some lyrics. “This indecision’s bugging…
