My name is Yancy Caruthers. I have a lovely wife and three daughters, and we all live deep in the Ozarks, in southern Missouri, USA. Not close to anywhere else, so don't ask.

I am a flight nurse with Air Evac Lifeteam, Inc, a privately held Air Ambulance company, that specializes in placing their service in remote rural areas of the southeast.

Currently, though, I am serving in Iraq with the United States Army, working in a combat ER in Anbar province. It's my second year-long tour here, and I am looking forward to retiring with 20 years of service in October. While not everyone may support the war efforts here, I have never questioned what I am doing here - just trying to mitigate the madness.

I love to write, and am in fact writing a book about the medical experience in Iraq. I will likely write about personal finance, as it is a hobby of mine, but will not limit myself to those topics. Medical issues and general creative entries may be common as well. I have some law enforcement background, so may also comment on that. I have an opinion on just about everything.

As for hobbies, I do martial arts, although not so much as my body ages, I play the piano and the great highland bagpipe, and can make chainmail. I enjoy recreational shooting, but not hunting so much, unless I eat it.

My passion is ...

fixing. People, mostly, but society, too, eventually.

I know too much about ...

the inside of the human body.

My parents always told me ...

lots of things i didn't listen to but should have.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a doctor. That didn't work out, and I'm not sorry.

My favorite memory ...

my military friends over the years.

Why I write ...

because there are things in my head that need to get out.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

adventure fiction, any non-fiction on politics or finance

My first job ...

Washing dishes in a campus chow hall

My best moment ...

marrying the woman I loved most of my life and didn't realize it.

My inspiration ...

a handful of decent politicians out there who have made a difference.

Relationships & Family > Male / Female Communication Styles A guy's take: How to find a good man

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"I always seem to be attracted to the wrong kind of man. Why aren't there any good ones?"

I have heard these words from female friends and co-workers more times than I can count. Sometimes I think to myself, "Because you have no respect for your own body, money runs through your fingers, and you're about three quarters crazy. If you snag a good man it just takes one more off the market."

But maybe she is the right type of girl: pretty, smart, thrifty, and sweet, yet she's been trampled on by every man she's ever entered a relationship with. So why can't she find the right one?

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