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.

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Summer in the City

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"Hot Town, Summer in the City," Loving Spoonful's August 1966 hit song still sizzles in my synapses all these years later. I ...

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Summer Heat as Kids

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It’s summer heat today. Numbers don’t do it justice. It’s hot. Like butter sizzling on a frying pan hot. Not normally what you’d get in ra...

Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Young Ones, (Bad Land: Road to Fury) movie

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The Young Ones, directed by Jake Paltrow is a western science fiction movie released in 2014 but which just came out on Netflix. We watched...

Jesus, Parables and Climate Change

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“He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed . As he was scattering the see...

Saturday, July 11, 2015

The Move

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It was a diabolical surprise. The lease was not extended. We lease from year to year as little companies whereas bigger companies, more att...

Alive on a Saturday

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It’s a miracle really. I’m alive on this Saturday. Years ago I went to a meeting, Alive on the Drive. It was alive. I was a live. It was a...

Thursday, July 9, 2015

King Lear, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, BC

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Bard on the Beach was great fun last night. I confess, I’d not been since the 90’s. Then I’d loved the comedies but had tired of sitting on...

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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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