The Winchester Family Business as seen here was launched in January 2009.  Since then, it's popularity has been growing in leaps and bounds.  The mission here is simple, we love our show.  This is meant to be a positive, welcoming site, where we don't lose site of what's important, we are grateful for what we're given.  The articles here are meant to entertain, be insightful, inform, but most importantly, complement the escapism we get every week from Supernatural.   

Alice Jester is the current editor in chief, head writer, programmer, web designer, and site administrator for The Winchester Family Business.  She fell into this completely by accident.  While thumbing through the channels one Thursday evening in September 2007, she came across the final minutes of this show she never heard of on a network she never heard of.  The sight of two gorgeous guys, a heart breaking dramatic moment, and a bitchin' classic car compelled her to find out more about this show.  After spending a few months catching up on seasons 1, 2, and part of 3 through DVDs and iTunes, Alice wrote an article in homage to her new favorite show.  "Supernatural: How A Show Manages To Succeed Despite Its Network" was a big hit and it got Alice a regular feature on blogcritics.org writing about her favorite show every week. 

As grateful as Alice is to blogcritics, there were limitiations to what could be done there and Alice got grander visions for more.  She wanted to do articles that didn't have word limits, featured screencaps and video clips, and captured topics that otherwise would be lost on blogcritics' massive content.  The idea for the comprehensive fan site was born.  Being a seventeen year IT professional and software developer, Alice is responsible for most of the web design, programming site applications, and constantly rearranging the site and its content to be more user friendly and less prone to IE bugs.  Trust her, it's a major challenge. 

John Jester is a computer network geek and web developer extraordinare.  After much prodding from his wife Alice, he created this site using his mad skills, catering to every one of his wife's "grand visions."  He is the site's System Administrator, and often is asked to assist with Alice's next crazy idea.  He created the site's banner as well.  It's a good thing Alice is technical too, or his life would be pure hell.  He is also the epitome of lurker with a capital "L" and doesn't post much.  Or at all. 


Married with children, Randal is employed by a library at an institution of higher learning where he disputes the efficacy of said higher learning upon the student body, but that's merely due to increasing get-off-my-lawn-ism. He stumbled onto The Winchester Family Business by mistake, thereby proving that mistakes are indeed glorious, and necessary, things. He can be found dispensing bad verse and random brain oozing under the same pseudonym here. (Here being his blog: http://lennui-melodieux.blogspot.com

Jasminka, hooked to Supernatural from episode one, has led several lives so far. After studying psychology, literature, drama and opera, she eventually found her calling for becoming a psychotherapist, treating trauma survivors, terminally ill and suicidal patients, and many young people with personality disorders or changes, which she considers to be the most rewarding job possible. Apart from that she has been teaching, but would never give up being a therapist for lectures only.

She started to write in high school, initially to continue books she had grown to love and didn’t want the story to end; later she became a reporter for her university’s newspaper. Early on she experienced writing’s relaxing and enriching effect, and with her imagination incessantly at work the need for expressing thoughts and emotions via writing has always been there. Particularly in emotionally taxing periods of her life writing has become a tool to sort out and untangle thoughts and find solutions, on a creative level. She hopes to complete a novel she’s been writing. She is happiest when with her loved ones, sharing experiences, rambling over books, theatre, movies or a certain tv-show. She dreams of parachuting at least once in her life, swimming with dolphins and visiting Hawaii. Despite being acquainted with loss, her biggest fear is losing people she loves.

Supernatural has had a most unexpected and incredibly stimulating impact on Jasminka, as its many layers wouldn’t leave her alone. Although this amazing show deals with the paranormal, its deeply human story moves her the most, and her curiosity to explore the facets of its characters’ relationships and struggles or the series’ metaphysics arises with every episode, never ceasing to inspire her.

Sablegreen is a medical research scientist specializing in immunology and genetics. She also has been involved with community service at the government level for 15 years. She is currently employed in the pediatrics department of a large medical complex. She spends much of her free time competing in agility, tracking, obedience, and carting with her two dogs. They also do therapy work on weekends at nursing homes, hospitals and schools. She found Supernatural in the summer of its second year by renting the DVD from season one. She has been hooked ever since.

Karen is our resident poet, finding extraordinary ways to share her love for Supernatural through poems.  She's married with one child, who’s in her first year of University.  She's from Southern Ontario and has worked for a large company for the past 30 years.  She found Supernatural the night they aired "Nightmare" and was immediately hooked. However due to shift work and a temperamental VCR, she was only able to catch a few episodes the first season and about half the second.  She was finally able to find the first season on DVD and caught up before season two’s came out. By the start of season three she had a digital box that she could record from and hasn't missed an episode since.