William Hay, Writer

William Hay, winner of 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Writing Awards and Folio Award, Canadian Author Association member,author of Caesarean Section and Love Between the Sacred and Profane poetry books, and Psychiatry and Addiction, Personal Perspective book, magazine short story and prose columnist.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Malone House, Belfast

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My sister in law Adell recommended we have tea at the Barnett Restaurant in Malone House. So that’s what we did. A lovely dining hall in a ...

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Troubles, Belfast, Ireland

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We’d heard of the Troubles recently at the U2 concert in Vancouver before coming to Ireland. Here in Belfast we’d see the actual sites the ...

Belfast City Hall, Ireland

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It’s a must see in the guide books. Smack dab in the centre of the city. A beautiful building. We wandered in and followed the signs to the...

Monday, June 22, 2015

Driving on the wrong side of the road, Belfast

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It was a steep learning curve driving the rented Citroen from the airport to City Hall. Thankfully the gas pedal, brakes and clutch seemed ...

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haykind: I began writing travel stories in grade 3. My mother was a journalist. I started publishing poetry and photography in high school. Dancing and acting followed with study in England with the world champion after bicycling across Europe. Medical school was also a time of canoeing and cross country skiing. Dad was a great outdoorsman. Country general practice was followed by northern fly in medicine. Completing a medicine fellowship and specializing in psychiatry, I did my California medical examinations before returning north to British Columbia where I began big game hunting, chicken farmed and sailed. Eventually, I solo sailed to Hawaii through winter storms. An island psychiatrist in Saipan, the weekly scuba diving was spectacular.Back in Canada, living on the sailboat,my Harley Davidson motorcycle became a whole new source of adventure. Raised Baptist, I taught sunday school for the United Church and eventually became Anglican a decade back. Bible study, Yogananda, Tai Chi, AA, celtic and native studies all added to that ecumenical Christian spirituality. Blessed by a loving family, beautiful partners, friends, pets and resilient house plants, life's a miracle.

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