I don’t mean to get heavy on you guys…ok, that’s a lie. I read a couple articles today that shook me a bit. Just in case we all needed to be reminded how lucky we are, here are a couple sobering tales.
Alexandra Penney is a successful author and former editor of Self magazine, and more relevantly, a victim of rogue money manager Bernard Madoff. Penney handed over her life savings to Madoff in the late-80’s and has been shoveling funds into her account every since. Now that money is gone. …