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		<title>La Rama &#8211; Yucatecan Christmas Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the weeks leading up to Christmas, in the more popular neighborhoods &#8211; popular being the local euphemism in Spanish for poor neighborhoods &#8211; you can see packs of children aged 5-13 or going door to door and singing; well actually chanting, a peculiar little refrain that apparently is a recreation of Mary and Josephs quest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Europea &#8211; Nada Que Ver</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/12/24/la-europea-nada-que-ver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was shopping in Walmart City Center (because there&#8217;s nothing like doing some grocery shopping on December 23rd, right?) and decided to walk over to the newly opened La Europea store. La Europea is the well-known wine and liquor shop in Cancun that also has gourmet food items and a sandwich bar featuring fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Depot Less Than Homey and Superama Far From Super</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/12/19/home-depot-less-than-homey-and-superama-far-from-super/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I thought I had already ranted about Home Depot and Superama, a quick search on this collection of neurotic writings confirms that I have not. Oh joy! I feel particularly inspired as yesterday was a shopping kind of day and I found the customer service on my forays into the two stores mentioned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Safe in the Yucatan &#8211; A Real Life Example</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/12/13/youre-safe-in-the-yucatan-a-real-life-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s see the North American newspapers print something about THIS. Yesterday, when returning along the Cancun highway from Izamal after a hard day of eating tacos at Wayan&#8217;e, visiting antique shops and visiting the yellow city of Izamal, I passed a car parked on the side of the highway just in front of a state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Reflects on her Merida Reno</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/10/14/pat-reflects-on-her-merida-reno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Authors note &#8211; so as not to confuse you, dear reader, this particular moment happened before Betty came to Pat&#8217;s house to discuss the Seidy &#8216;situation&#8217;) Enjoy! ******************************************************************************* &#8220;15 new messages&#8221; was Pat&#8217;s cue to begin clicking around her Facebook page, reading this and that until she remembered that she had wanted to replace the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter Marco San Pedro de las Asturias de Barlovento Ruiseñor Pesado</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/09/04/enter-marco-san-pedro-de-las-asturias-de-barlovento-ruisenor-pesado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marco San Pedro de las Asturias de Barlovento Ruiseñor Pesado or &#8220;El Duque&#8221; as he was jokingly referred to by his Yucatecan friends walked carefully along the sidewalk; at this time of the afternoon it was late enough that he didn&#8217;t need to be concerned about which side of the sidewalk it was, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat and Betty talk to Seidy (you decide where we are going next)</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/08/14/pat-and-betty-talk-to-seidy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/08/14/pat-and-betty-talk-to-seidy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hola Seidy!&#8220;, said Betty with a smile when Seidy opened the door for her. &#8220;Está doña Pati?&#8221; Seidy smiled a shy half smile which Betty took as a sign of affirmation, lowering her eyes and moving out of the way so Betty could come in. The blond woman followed her to the indoor patio where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie Arrives in Merida</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/08/01/annie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annie arrived at 9:13 PM in the middle of Merida&#8217;s rainy season on a Continental flight from Houston, the only direct flight into Merida from the U.S. She had not wanted to stop in the United States as she did not support that country&#8217;s politics, but had discovered that she had to in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Economic Activity</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/07/26/a-new-economic-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving around Merida, one interesting thing to keep an eye out for is an interesting sign, usually featuring great grammar or a new term you&#8217;ve never heard of. Chipeo, anyone?]]></description>
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		<title>Carls Jr and Lucia Mendez</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/07/22/carls-jr-and-lucia-mendez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you ask, what the heck are the terms Carls Jr. and Lucia Mendez doing in the same sentence? Well, as luck would have it, or happenstance or just plain old hunger, I left my office in Chuburna with the firm intention of finally trying the fish and chips at Giannis that I had read [...]]]></description>
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