Edna Buchanan once said, “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves” and I think I would have to agree. I don’t know how and who I was in a former life, but I’m glad to know that whatever I did landed me with the people in these photos to have for my own. I am not the most affectionate, or the most easy to be with, or always conscious (as many can attest, I’ve fallen asleep in bars, gigs, rockband sessions) but these people suffer through my company when I need them, and sometimes show up even when I didn’t think I did. I don’t see them often enough,…