Author Archives: Michelle Collins

Your recipe question is not the problem. Your electricity bill might be.

I never believed the bottle-of-water number, so I went and found the study. It turns [...]

Practice at 6. Dinner at 5:30.

Same fridge, same forty minutes, same prompt, typed twice: once into a blank chat, once [...]

The Busy Season starts now. Here is what I use to get through it.

From now until Christmas, activities, school, the weather, and the holidays all land at the [...]

What is a Project? (And why you want one)

You keep re-explaining your life to a blank chat box. A Project fixes that. Here's [...]

How on earth am I supposed to eat THAT much protein and fiber?

You got a number and your lunch is nowhere near it. The problem is arithmetic, [...]

Adapting recipes for diet restrictions

The recipe looks perfect until line four. Here's how to get a real substitution instead [...]

Whatcha thinkin’ for dinner?

The hardest part of dinner isn't cooking. It's deciding. Three prompts that turn "what's for [...]

AI and Data Security: How to keep your information safe

Where your AI chats actually go, which settings matter, and the one rule that protects [...]

What’s actually happening when you use AI

Last verified: Sept 2, 2026 This is the foundation the rest of the site is [...]