April Lindner

Thought it pains me deeply to write the next six words: SUMMER IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE. With the start of the school year less than a week away, I'm tempted to kick myself for all the things I didn't do this summer.  I wrote a little of this and a little of that instead of completing anything major.  I didn't travel anyplace exotic or distant.  But instead of beating myself up, I'm going to celebrate one thing I actually did: take a lovely day trip to the Delaware shore to do a signing at one of my very favorite indie bookstores,  Bethany Beach Books.   After a long walk on Bethany Beach, Andre and I met some lovely people and I signed some books in the fresh sea air. With Courtney, from Bethany Beach Books Afterward we drove to Rehoboth Beach to revisit one of our favorite restaurants in the whole world, The Pig + Fish Restaurant Company .  W e even paused for a snapshot with Chipper, our favorite server anyplace, ever.   Chi...

Seen at Two Buttons With my sister in town for the long July fourth weekend, a road trip or two was in order.  Saturday morning we hopped in the car and headed for Frenchtown, a funky little river town on the Jersey side of the Delaware.   Andre and I discovered Frenchtown a few years ago, thanks to a  New York Times Magazine  feature about author Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame.   An ardent booster of her adoptive hometown, Gilbert and her husband Jose Nunes (yes, the Brazilian guy from the book's "Love" section) co-own a business there--a really cool sounding import shop called "Two Buttons."  It had been closed on our only other visit to Frenchtown, and this time around it was our ultimate destination. But first we needed to take an exploratory stroll.   Though still charming, Frenchtown has grown considerably livelier in the two years since our last visit. Friendly locals were out walking their dogs and greeting each o...