By Coral Ceiley Photo caption: Visiting Mom with her dogs and some M & M’s I have experienced death; it came knock, knock, knocking on my door in 2008, when I was forty-four.  I was walking around my classroom at Fairfax Middle School when I noticed a voicemail from my Father’s roommate – very unusual. I called the number and was informed that my father had passed away in his sleep, and the Burbank Police Department wanted to know where they should take the body. I said, “Hello, Death, I have never met you before,” and prepared myself for the … Continue reading Ashes to Ashes; Dust to Dust