About

Margins of a Day is a place for thoughts on attention, analog life and living a little more slowly.

I’m Dean. I write about the small practices that help a day feel more fully inhabited: notebooks and handwriting, coffee made without hurry, photography, reading, quiet routines, and the effort to notice what is already here.

The name comes from the idea that a good life needs margins. Unclaimed stretches of time. Space between one thing and the next. Room for a thought to develop before it is turned into content, measured, or optimised.

This is not a rejection of technology. It is an attempt to use it with more intention and to remember the pleasures that do not need you to be faster, smarter or permanently connected.

Some of the writing may also follow a life between the UK and South Korea, and the gradual possibility of building something physical: perhaps a small stationery shop, a place for coffee, or simply a corner where people are encouraged to pause.

For now, this is where I keep my observations collected along the way.