The other day over lunch, my boyfriend of 17 months asked me what I thought about "no-nupts." In case you're unfamiliar with this term, no-nupts -- short for "no-nuptial" agreements -- are written contracts for couples who live together, but aren't planning to marry.

Sometimes they get...

So I received a proposition this week from a man I met online. I'm still trying to decide if it's indecent. Is it different? Yes. Freaky? Borderline. Am I considering it? Hmmmm...kind of.

It was an hour into our first meeting that he revealed it to me....

So as the countdown begins to this year's Calgary Stampede, I'm reminded of last year's "debacle" during the festivities. That is, I spent eight hours at a bar with a handsome "urban cowboy" who professed to be single and genuinely smitten by me. A day later, I found out that...

It's been a long road getting to "healthy" since I got divorced five years ago. Between legal matters, single parenting, starting a new career and exploring the dating/sex trenches, my life often felt like one giant ball of CRAZY.

But there came a time, about two years ago, when...

A month ago, a local book club contacted me to say that they'd chosen my just-released memoir, The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, as their April pick. So great was their enthusiasm that they also asked if I might attend their meeting in person. I agreed...

Today, as women everywhere breathe heavily over 50 Shades of Grey, an erotic novel complete with bondage, discipline and power fantasy role-playing, I actually find myself breathing a little easier...

Because it's something I've experienced in real life. Moreover, I chose to tell the world about it in my just-released...

Oh my God, I am so paranoid. I just can't seem to escape it. Might as well go ahead and write on my tombstone:

Loving mom, dedicated friend,
Had sex with two different men in one weekend. Devoted her life to worrying about it.

But now that a few...

I've always yearned to lie beside the man I love and discuss a good book. To me, the mere idea of it feels romantic. Intimate. Even arousing.

No man I've cared for thus far, my ex-husband included, enjoyed reading books. Sure, they'd scour over a newspaper or the odd motorcycle...

Though I don't know my friend Tim really well, I've always held him in high regard. The other day, however, I got to thinking that it seemed strange that he was still single. I mean, I knew he was divorced. But that was eight years ago and he didn't seem...

It's a taboo subject in our culture: Married women, who dislike -- even hate -- having sex with their husbands.

It's a subject usually held in silence, behind embarrassment, confusion, sometimes even apathy. It's consoled with inner placations, like "There's more important things in a marriage than sex", or...

What's really happening in the sex lives of divorced or single moms? Are they at home on Saturday nights watering their plants? Are they periodically dating, but adhering to a strict code of abstinence? Or are many moms choosing to date and take lovers -- perhaps until the next Mr....

Over the past three years since I got divorced, it is by far THE most popular statement I've heard from women: "I don't need a man." And it's been said with passion. Power. Ownership. As if it's been EARNED.

And I've heard it all over the place:...

Hollywood TV and film make the first date 'goodnight kiss' look so easy. It's usually not a closed-mouth 'see-ya-later' kind of kiss, but a deep, lingering, passionate kiss -- the kind that makes the viewer go, "Mmmm."

But the viewer doesn't see hands venturing anywhere inappropriate. Lips inevitably do...

I recently went out on a first date with a stylish, charming man of French (Québécois) descent. And when our conversation moved into that of relationships (which it inevitably does with me) he suddenly caught me off guard by stating : "I believe in commitment...but not monogamy."

His admission left...

So I made out with another woman's husband a couple of weeks ago.

That's right. This here divorce and dating expert got conned by a handsome, sweet- talking cheater.

Back up and let me explain:

It was 6 p.m. on a Tuesday night, right in the middle of the Calgary...