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.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Gratitude and Perspective

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Thank you God for Creation. Thank you for this life. Thank you for this body, these eyes, this nose, these ears, this mouth, this urethra an...

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Shilo-Fifth Avenue United Church, New Westminister

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It was wonderful to attend Shilo-Fifth Avenue United Church. Rev. Shannon Tennant greeted Gilbert and I at the door and welcomed Laura. “Ev...

Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference, Vancouver, 2018

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The Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference 2018 at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver was a great success. Over 650 attendees...

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Anxiety

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I am here in the homes of others. I sit at their table. I am surrounded by their awards and honors. Their friends are all here. I sit in the...

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Act of Vengeance, the movie

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Act of Vengeance, the Turkish movie made in 2010, not to be confused with the 2017 Acts of Vengeance movie, is on Netflix. It appears to ha...

Monday, October 22, 2018

Operation Finale, Movie

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Opération Finale, the Netflix Movie, is a moving tour de force of a historical drama of the capture of Adolf Eichman, the architect of the f...

Free Floating Anxiety

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Free floating anxiety is a psychiatric term for a type of particularly disabling and pernicious anxiety. It seems to be autochthonous which...

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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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