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, June 30, 2024

Whistler Ridge

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I’ve just come in from lying outside in the sun. The view here is magnificent. Laura was on one lawn chair. I on the other. Madigan jumpe...

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

27 years

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I woke chilled and wanting to pee. When I finally got out of bed to relieve myself I found the covers were on the floor. I’d held onto the...

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Commercial Street and Havana’s Cafe

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I’ve come from Dr. Ready. He’s a fine chiropractor and I’ve been enjoying improving under his care. I invited Laura for brunch but she’s o...

Friday, June 14, 2024

Victoria

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I loved riding my HD Lightning Special Motorcycle to the Twassassen Ferry. The rain had stopped and blue sky was muscling out the grey clou...

Friday, June 7, 2024

Prehistory

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Prehistory is the time before writing. Writing first appeared in Mesopotamian 5500 BC. My interest in prehistory was ignited by a special e...

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Unpacking Transexual History

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I am enjoying Transgender History by Susan Stryker which focuses mostly on developments in America from mid twenties century to today. It’s...

Sunday, June 2, 2024

St. Barnabus Anglican Church

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What a whirlwind of activity church was! One would have thought our poor Anglican Beacon on the Hill church had become Pentecostal. It was ...

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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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