Welcome to this week’s Friday Faculty Five with Rhonda Rhea, Vicki Crumpton, and Jevon Bolden. Someone is made from the same metals as her bike. Someone is seriously lacking sleep (or was for 12 years, at least). And someone loves to say “Yes!” Find out who below.

Rhonda Rhea

1. Anytime I’m in a counseling situation and people say they feel empty inside, I have to fight my instinctive response. Which would be, “Have you tried tacos?”
2. I talk about the last time I went jogging like it was a recent thing and then when I’m alone I laugh and laugh.
3. I had five babies in seven years. That means in a 12-year span I probably slept about four hours. Total.
4. When all those kids were teens, I put money in the eggs for the Easter egg hunt and then called it the Easter Smack-down. Which it totally was. I should also go ahead and disclose that we Rheas are a violent people.
5. I confess I’d like to do this: “OK, Google. Write the comparable titles section of my book proposal.” I hate those things.

Vicki Crumpton

1. I’ve ridden my bicycle across Iowa four times.
2. My neck and my road bicycle are both titanium and carbon fiber.
3. I’ve gone down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon twice…and once was in my kayak.
4. I don’t like cheese.
5. I used to have recurring dreams that I could dunk a basketball.

Jevon Bolden

1. I’m left-handed.
2. I act and sing. I played the part of “Wanda J” in a musical called Crowns by Regina Taylor at a local theater, which ran seven shows in one week, and the response was so positive that it was brought back the next season for seven shows.
3. Yes is one of my favorite words. Hence, I like new opportunities and change.
4. I was a cheerleader in high school—my very tiny Christian high school.
5. I was going to be a neurosurgeon and was heavily involved in science and math programs throughout high school and college. I majored in premed biology and then math and computer science before I switched to English (and not because I was bad with numbers or science). It was one of the best choices I ever made. I even worked as a banker for four years before becoming a book editor.

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