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.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

East Van Roasters

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East Van Roasters is a delightful little store where the finest of people make chocolate and sell coffee. The coffee is delicious. I’m sold....

Cache Creek - more game viewing

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It was the last weekend of moose hunting in Zone 3. Tom and Gilbert and I got a head start by driving up Thursday night. Friday morning ear...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Remembrance Day

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This morning is a hard start. Hard start refers to an engine that won’t turn over. It refuses to spark. I’ve slept in. First time in mon...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Journal - Nov. 9, 2014

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I’m on the sailing vessel, GIRI. Gilbert had me throwing the ball for him for quite a while. I made coffee and soup. That took getting the ...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Hibernating the Harley Davidson Motorcycle

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Trev Deely has a great storage plan. I used it last year for the few months of winter. This year they’ve even dropped their rates. I love t...

Friday, November 7, 2014

Ballet BC No.29

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Ballet BC has again out done itself in originality. Choreographer Jacopo Godani’s A.U.R.A (Anarchist Unit Related to Art) was minimalist f...

Night fears

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It is good this minute. The pains are minor. No screaming cells. Only aches. Reminders. The hair is white. Death awaits. The mind conside...

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About Me

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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