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, November 28, 2021

Gratitude and Madigan Swollen River Walk

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I chose gratitude as a title to uplift me. I slept in. I’ve done a long walk with Madigan. I’m thankful for air, and water and sunshine. I’m...

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Stormy day

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Vancouver is now reconnected with the rest of Canada. The storms of the last weeks had flooded Abbotsford and Princeton and Merrit. The old ...

Friday, November 26, 2021

Friday, after Madigan walk and first coffee

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I’m working this morning. It’s normally my day off but the work has piled up and spilt over. Frankly there’s not much else to do when the ra...

Another Random Day

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Madigan was lying beside me wanting to share my breakfast yogurt and granola bar. Now that I’ve begun to type, he’s left to get a stick to c...

Monday, November 22, 2021

A weekend with Laura and Madigan

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The storms have passed. Abbotsford remains flooded .The Sumas lake has returned. At one point all the routes into and out of Vancouver to t...

Friday, November 19, 2021

After the storm

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I saw the kingfisher today. He landed on branches above the river right beside me. It was about the only day I didn’t have my camera phone...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Storm has passed

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A deluge hit BC this weekend. 200 mm of rain in two day. Flooding all around. Princeton and Merritt hit worst. The river overflowed in Pr...

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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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