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, March 1, 2020

March 2020 We made it!

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« We made it! » she wrote. « We can surely survive till October’. We’d just met coughing after the second bout of flu this year, sick and...

Friday, February 28, 2020

Nostalgia hits

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When nostalgia hits like an old piano slipping harness on a wooden staircase I’m knocked to my knees Breath caught in unfolding gasps of...

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Thursday Alive and Stylin

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I woke feeling better. Last weekend it was touch and go. I remembered that weekend years back I was just as sick or worse. I bought the Bue...

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Gilbert the Cockapoo, 10 years old today

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Today is Gilbert’s birthday. He’s 10 years old. That’s a wonder and a miracle. My buddy, that long, so many adventures. So many cuddles. ...

Friday, February 21, 2020

Valentine’s Day Harrison Hotsprings Resort

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Laura and I had a great time at Harrison Hotsprings Resort. Gilbert loved it as usual. Laura was the best looking girl there I told her a...

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Gratitude Thursday on a February Morning

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Thank you Lord God of Creation, my higher power, the essence of being, the friend I talk to and feel I am heard by. Thank you for prayer and...

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Saturday Morning in February

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I am grateful. I’ve walked Gilbert along the Brunette River. It’s not raining. There’s even blue sky and some sunshine breaking through th...

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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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