We continue our interview with restaurateur/artist Karen Carrier. This is episode four, which is part of the We Saw You video series โ€” hosted by yours truly โ€” about Memphians and Mid-Southerners.

In this episode, Carrier and I sat down at her home while she talked about her aunt, Gloria Sklen, who lived in New York. 

Sklen, who sounds like the eccentric bohemian Auntie Mame was a mosaic artist and โ€œjust wild,โ€ Carrier says. โ€œI was just mesmerized by her.โ€

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...