Nothing But Time [Paperback]

Judy Light Ayyildiz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2001

Overnight, everything in her life alters when Judy awakens paralyzed from the waist down by a mysterious illness. As she struggles for the courage to find a way of escape from this well of isolation, pain and powerlessness, her creative imagination takes flight. Armed with insight gleaned from her own stories about events and people in her past and present -- told with restrained humor and often with Appalachian flavor -- Judy discovers that her spiritual desire to "walk" is stronger than the fear of falling

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About the Author

Judy Light Ayyildiz was born in Teays Valley, West Virginia in 1941, and graduated from Marshall University with a BA in Music Education. Her husband, Vedii, is a naturalized US citizen, born and raised in Turkey. For over thirty-five years, they have lived in Roanoke, Virginia, where they raised their children, Kent, Kevin Kamal, and Karen. Vedii continued a private practice in surgery while Judy taught, wrote, acted on stage, engaged in civic work, sang, directed choirs, edited Artemis, and received a MA both in Liberal Arts and in English/Creative Writing from Hollins University. As a writing consultant during the past twenty years, Judy has created programs in many diverse institutions of learning. She has had honors in poetry, articles, and short stories in literary publications all across the country. Her published work includes three books of poetry and four co-authored supplementary creative writing and critical thinking texts for students and teachers. NOTHING BUT TIME, Judy's first creative non-fiction work, evolved from a journal that she kept during her plight with Guillain-Barre syndrome in 1985.

Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris; 1 edition (March 12, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738852600
• ISBN-13: 978-0738852607
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,826,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Judy Light Ayyildiz taught creative writing at all education levels for 30 years. Instructor and presenter at literary workshops, international conferences on poetry, writing and women's studies, Judy is internationally published, an editor of Artemis, Artists and Writers from the Blue Ridge for 13 years, and a Blue Ridge Writers Conference founder. Her published books are First Recital, Smuggled Seeds, Mud River, Creative Writing across the Curriculum, Easy Ideas for Busy Teachers, The Writers' Express, Nothing but Time, Some of My Ancestors are Ottomans and Turks and Forty Thorns and its Turkish translation, Kirk Diken. She has published in literary magazines such as, New York Quarterly, Mickle Street Review, the new renaissance, Sow's Ear, Pig Iron Press, Hawaii Pacific Review, Black Water Review, Northeast Journal, Kalliope, Fjords, and www.editerranean.nu. Essay, "Weaving This Woman's Life and Work" with Judy's books' excerpts included in the 2008 international anthology, Women inDialogue: (M) uses in Culture. Winner of "Nazim Hikmet 2009 Poetry Festival Prize and a 2010 "Educator of the Year Award," Judy is completing the memoir, The WVDiet, a focus on how creativity, the Civil Rights and Women's Movements enabled her life.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but life, June 11, 2001

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Sherrye Lantz (Roanoke, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing But Time (Paperback)

Ms. Ayyildiz book is about life and love and family and trauma and survival. It is for any who have faced the very hard times life throws at us. Judy tells her survival in voices of those who shape her life, with tears and laughter.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than Just Time, May 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Nothing But Time (Paperback)

This book is truly an inspiration for anyone who has ever run into a brick wall in life. The author faced what must be one of life's greatest nightmares--finding oneself suddenly paralyzed--and shows how she navigated her way through. Ayyildiz turns this experience into an opportunity to comb through her rich and varied memories--of growing up in West Virginia, of her courtship by and marriage to a Turkish physician, of her struggles to develop her talents and make something of herself as a writer. As she chronicles the various stages of her healing, she stitches together the disparate elements of her life, so that in the end, both her body and her "self" have a new wholeness.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but life, June 11, 2001

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Sherrye Lantz (Roanoke, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing But Time (Paperback)

Ms. Ayyildiz book is about life and love and family and trauma and survival. It is for any who have faced the very hard times life throws at us. Judy tells her survival in voices of those who shape her life, with tears and laughter.