Hello and welcome to Feverex

a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori Shafere.

And I'm Elise Hugh and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serum. Welcome to the show. Today we have a guest who has been on before, but not for a few years.

And not while I have been host. Correct. One of my favorite writers and poets, Kate Baer,

so good to get to talk to her again. Yes. And her new collection, which is out tomorrow, you can't miss it, y'all. It's called How About Now? And we'll

get into it and she'll do some readings from it. And we're all really excited about that.

But first, we promised that you would hear more about Dory's recreational tennis

teams, big trip to the national tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona. So Dore, take us back to

Scottsdale. Oh, my goodness. So this was the national championship. The way it works is that the

U.S.TA divides the country into 17 sections. So this was the national championship. The way it works is that the USDA divides the country into 17 sections.

So we were representing SoCal. There's also a NorCal section. But most, I would say most of the sections except for California, Florida, and Texas are multi-state.

Okay.

We're just so giant that...

We're just so giant that they have to split us into two sections.

So we were there representing SoCal.

We played four matches in the main flight.

And everyone plays four matches randomly selected.

So you could get a really tough draw or you could get an easy draw. We had kind of a middling draw. Like we had one, I would say,

easy match, two tough matches and then one sort of middle-ish match. How do you decide who plays those matches from your team?

Well, Elise, I'm glad you asked.

I promised everyone on the team who was coming that if they came to Nationals, they would play

at least one match.

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