Celink

Last Word: What Keeps Me Up At Night 

Generations are marked and defined by their movies. Dramas have impact, but it’s horror movies, the stuff of nightmares, that we remember most. My parents shuddered to Count Dracula and White Zombie­—movies that probably wouldn’t raise an eyebrow today. For boomers like me, the definitive horror film was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. I’m not embarrassed to say I was one of countless people unable to shower comfortably for months after seeing it. My worst nightmares today don’t come from movies. They come whenever some of my worst fears (fraud, defaults) about the vulnerability of some of our borrowers are realized. One