Randy Fishell, Editor

Birthplace: Niles, Michigan. The other thing Niles is known for is a two-headed lamb in the local museum. Cloning gone wrong, I guess.

Who was your favorite school teacher? Rhoda Wills. She tried to teach me how to right good in hi skool. Ironically, her sister, Jeannette Johnson, was the Guide editor who hired me years later.

How did you meet your wife, Diana? I met Diana in college. Frankly, I was taken by her stunning good looks. It was in a class that I attended once before dropping it. But once was enough. We've been married quite a few years and have three sons: Tyler, Andrew, and Ethan.

What was your first job? My very first job was picking raspberries. I can't say that I enjoyed it, but it made me realize that I needed to do well in school if I didn't want to pick raspberries for a living.

What is it like working for Guide? For more than a dozen years now, it's been kind of like one big, fun session of figuring out new ways to turn kids on to God each week.

What's your favorite Bible story? The story surrounding Paul's shipwreck toward the end of Acts. Although it was a serious matter, it kind of reminds me of Gilligan's Island.

When you were Guide age, what did you want to be when you grew up? A scuba diver. I watched the TV show Flipper, and I always thought it would be cool to live and work in the Everglades and surrounding area.

If you were president for a day, what would you change? My socks.

What is your favorite Bible verse? John 21:25: "Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written" (NIV).* For me, this verse is filled with wonder and mystery about all the things we don't know about our Savior and His time on earth.

What is your favorite Guide story? There's always a new favorite on the horizon, or so it seems. But I really liked the continued story we ran in 1998 called "The Lost Treasure of Dinosaur Mountain." A boy and his dad tried to find gold out in the southwestern United States. I also thought "Low-Lifes" by John F. Jessel was a classic.

What are your hobbies? Relic and treasure hunting with my metal detector; cartooning; writing; playing guitar and piano; hiking.

If you want to see some of Randy's cartoons, go to Caption the Cartoon.

*Texts credited to NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

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