Not everyone thought the Messiah had arrived. The markets didn’t make Obama feel welcome. DJIA 7949.09 -332.13 NASDAQ 1440.86 -88.47 S&P 500 805.22 -44.9 And the dollar was down against the Yen as well. Oh, and get this: I called my home-schooled kids into the room to watch the swearing-in, a...

Today's post comes from Sarah Miller, author of the terrific Miss Spitfire (review and interview), writer of a very fine blog, and all around great pal. Her obsession with the Romanovs is evident in her current work-in-progress, "a novel about the final years of Russia's last imperial family, told b...