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, January 7, 2021

American Elections

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I am a centrist. I’ve spent half my life as a liberal and now am called a pink Tory. My father was right wing and my mother was left wing. ...

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

January Gratitude

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Thank you God for air. Thank you for the warmth inside. Thank you for running water and indoor plumbing. Thank you for coffee. Thank you for...

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Rainy Day Gratitude

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Thank you Lord for the rain. The plants, flowers and trees love it. I like the way it cleans the streets and fills the streams. Thank you Lo...

Friday, January 1, 2021

New Year’s Day, 2021

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I’m thankful that I’m not in a war. I’m thankful I’m not in hospital. I am thankful that my family and friends are well. I’m thankful for Ma...

Thursday, December 31, 2020

New Year’s Eve morning, 2020-2021

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Madigan is the best of this year. Losing Gilbert was the worst. Trading in the KTM 690 for the Vespa 250 Touring was another highlight. T...

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Sunday Dec. 27, 2020 Puppy Mind

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Women with babies sometimes describe their own minds as ‘baby minds’. I’ve got a ‘puppy’ mind. It’s fudge. Kind of murky and focused on pe...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Wednesday

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I woke up to the musical alarm. The song, “I believe in God”. The Creed plays over and over. I hit the snooze bar twice. I was going tor ...

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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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