A Little Consideration

Over the past 20 years, Richard Ehrlich has kept track of life's smallest moments, following Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy that the meaning of life can be found by giving "a little consideration" to the things that take place around us every day. Borrowing that phrase for his title, Ehrlich has compiled personal essays that reveal the constants of his daily routine. He bikes along the boardwalk, swims, teaches high school and reads Emerson and Thoreau. He also revisits the experiences of...