I’m Holly Mullen. I run this town. Except it’s hardly a dictatorship. This place lives on expression–yours and mine. It takes heart and intellect to breathe real life into mullentown.

For 27 years I worked as a newspaper journalist. I’ve lived and worked in Utah, Washington, Minnesota, Texas. I’ve been a beat reporter, an editor of news, feature and sports sections. I’m currently editor of City Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Salt Lake City. Before that, I was a general columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Before that, reporting and editing all over the country — Washington, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Dallas-Fort Worth.

I’m fascinated with e-journalism. I keep hearing traditional news people yapping about how blogging is incomplete, lacking in factual information, credibility. Funny, those criticisms usually come from owners of big newspapers or journalists who collect a paycheck from a newspaper or television outlet.

On this site I write what is in my heart, combined with interviews, observation, and old-fashioned reporting. Photos, links to other sites, my posts, your posts. It all matters.

You want personal info? I’m married to a man with brains, looks and the world’s biggest heart. Ted Wilson was mayor of Salt Lake City from 1976 to 1986. He was director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah from 1986 to 2003, when he retired.

Ted skis like an angel and has climbed mountains for 50 years.

I’ll be skiing like an angel in say, maybe, two more years. That’s because I just started the sport six years ago. Now I’m a fiend on two planks: at Alta and occasionally, in the backcountry. I run several days a week. I ride a ride bike as often as I can in the canyons around Salt Lake City or flat out from the city to the Great Salt Lake. And I love Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, Ella, Regina Spektor and Death Cab for Cutie.

I have two children: Caitlin is 19. Sam is 16. It’s true what they say about parenting being a full-time job, and I haven’t got a mind to retire from it yet. Judging from how nicely C. an S. are living their lives, all the work on the front end is paying off.

In many ways, my life is right in step with millions of other Americans. Our family is a complex blend. Ted and his former wife, a talented painter named Kathy, have five children together. There are 10 grandkids. I’ve always figured I gained these additions to my own little family the easy way!

All of this adds up to life in mullentown. I think it’s a fine place to live. Come and visit. Stay as long as you like.