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.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Easter Camping Trip

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We have arrived. I’ve just set up the camper outside while Laura organized inside. It turns out that we’re not the only ones skipping chur...

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Palm Sunday at St. Barnabus Church

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We arrived at church this morning to find it empty. I immediately assumed we were at the wrong time or wrong Sunday. Thankfully a lovely par...

Simon Frazer Pipe Band Concert at Vogue Theatre

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Even without haggis we still loved the SFU Pipe Band. Laura said, “I’m used to getting roast beef while I’m listening to them.” We have so...

Saturday, April 13, 2019

8 years old: Sunday School and Cub Scouts

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8 years old. This is a real memory exercise. I’ve been recommending it for years to my older patients. Write a page a year of your life jou...

Friday Afternoon in Burnaby

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It’s Friday. Thank God. It was a great clinic. Gilbert is enjoying his hair cut. Lots of vim and vigour. We walked with three dogs an...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

7 years old: drunk judge and rock stars

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It was 1959. It was a good year. I was living in Winnipeg, Fort Garry, on North Drive, a block from the Badminton Club and Golf Club. The R...

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Waking for Work

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I actually enjoy waking most mornings. Now that the sun is back from it’s wanderings or baby earth has caught up with the father in their ga...

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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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