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, May 6, 2019

16 years old: Dad, Camp Stevens, poetry, guitar. 12 inches

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16 years old was a very big year. The line between 15 and 16 years old blurs because Camp Stevens fell between Gr. 8 and 9 or Gr. 9 and 10....

Friday, May 3, 2019

13 years old: hormones, masturbation, ice floes and church camp

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13 years old went on forever. We still lived in Fort Gary. I still went to Viscount Alexander School. We were no longer in Viscount Alexan...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

12 years old: Bumper shines, IquanaBoy Scouts, YMCA

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It seems my life began to be busier with Gr. 6. The sleepy quality of Gr. 5 with it’s routine and study begin to change as we boys become m...

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Addiction is Isolation;Recovery is Participation

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When someone is addicted it’s like they have separated themselves from the mainstream by their addiction activities. Over time they become ...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Wes Hazlitt

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It was great seeing Wes Hazlitt again. We've known each other since school days. Today I visitted his lovely home past the University ...

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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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