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.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Gratitude

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Thank you God for this new month October. Thank you for seeing me through the spring summer and September. Thank you for my brothers well be...

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Doc-Side Medical Clinic

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Dr. G. Horvath has had low key Downtown East Side medical clinic for many years. A family physician with advanced training in physical inju...

Monday, September 28, 2015

Bungalow Motel, Cascade Adventures and Harrison Lake Hunting

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Laura and I love Bungalow Cabins at Harrison’s Lake. They’re rustic and Canadian, truly Canadian. All the benefits of town living, hot sho...

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Musing on Canadian Elections

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I'm thankful for the Conservatives these last 8 years. Under Mr. Harper we have remained relatively stable economically despite global ...

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Expeditioning and the SV GIRI

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SV GIRI was finally outfitted for offshore sailing again. On the last trip back from Hawaii, the mast broke in a gale. We jury rigged a so...

Friday, September 18, 2015

Early Music Vancouver - Brandenburg Concertos - Playhouse Theatre

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What a joy full evening!. What incredible music by the most accomplished musicians! I know I could have been hunting. I would never give up...

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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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