1.0 link 110466 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simran-sethi/breakfast-of-champions-ci_b_110466.html Life Cycle is a series of posts on the extraordinary lives of everyday things.

Growing up, the first thing co-blogger Sarah smelled every morning was smoke from her grandmother's menthol cigarette. (She ranks this odor somewhere between paper mill and trash in a hot alley, and as a teenager rebelled by NOT smoking.) She would come downstairs to find Grandma smoking over a skillet of bacon, buzzing happily with her first fix of the day--as were...]]> 2008-07-18T05:12:00-04:00