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.

Friday, March 31, 2023

Aging

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I was bothered when the Generation Z asked me if I could refer her to someone her age. Generation Z was apparently born 1997 to 2012. , c...

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Part Object

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In psychiatry, especially psychoanalysis and obviously the school of object relations, object refers roughly to ‘person’. Freud conceptuali...

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Fort Garry Library

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It was always a big excursion as a child, a regular sunny day adventure. It began late spring in Winnipeg, continued through summer and carr...

Thursday, March 23, 2023

God, Jazz, Cleaning Ladies

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Yesterday the cleaning ladies came. It was a particularly hard day of work. Entitlement and criticism and no doubt generations of negativit...

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Dreams, ennui, spring

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I had a twinge of ennui this morning. Restless, irritable, discontent and fear are the signs of self will run riot, lack of gratitude, half...

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Warm and Sunny Saturday in March

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This day is lovely, Lord. Thank you. We have risen to sunshine, sleeping in an hour till the dog and bladders woke us from the revery of pe...

Friday, March 17, 2023

First warm and sunny day

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‘It’s 13 degrees outside at 5 pm, ‘ she said with astonishment and delight. ‘I’m going outside then to get some fresh air while the sun is...

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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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