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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Monday, July 21, 2025

Burnaby - ODAAT

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I am in my Thor Hurricane Class A Motorhome. I’m 73 years old. Still working. Today is Monday and I have a virtual clinic booked all day. ...

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

IDAA Spokane, Harley Motorcycle Ride Spokane to Burnaby

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What a wonderful time I had at the Spokane IDAA. Of the some 25 I’ve attended this one is special especially because of the people. I must ...

Friday, July 11, 2025

Egomaniac with inferiority complex

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I first heard that 28 years ago and thought that sums up my dilemma perfectly. I also heard the words ‘incomprehensible demoralization’ and...

Thursday, July 10, 2025

IDAA Spokane 2025. To thine own self be true

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I’m loving this conference, The Spokane Convention Center has great acoustics and is such a friendly place. I’m staying in the Grand Hotel ...

Sunday, October 22, 2023

October Weekend

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It was a busy full October weekend. Despite the rain. Early Friday I drove with Madigan to the camper where I found my keys. Hooray. On the ...

Friday, July 7, 2023

Tucson Conference Friday

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Before I came she showed me a picture she painted of me. Like the photograph I took of myself in the islands. The artistic self. Not the ...

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Tucson Conference

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“Look for the similarities, not the differences,’ he told me years ago. I’m terminally unique. I have a sense of alienation and really do ...

Tucson Conference

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IDAA….the flight down was long. I’m awake at 4 am because I had to wake yesterday that early to arrive here for the teen banquet. It’s hot...

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Gratitude Saturday

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I’m pleased to be awake. The day is good. Sunny warm. Madigan is a nutbar. Jumped on my crotch when he figured I was waking. Acted like h...

Friday, August 2, 2019

IDAA 2019 Knoxville, Tennessee, Part 1

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I enjoyed flying United despite Vancouver to Knoxville taking most of a day. I had reservations at the Hilton on Church Street. Great rooms...

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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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