Write place: Cathy Henderson finds an unlikely pen pal

‘I didn’t set out to exchange letters with a woman on death row.’

by Cathy Henderson 9th January 2026

I didn’t set out to exchange letters with a woman on death row in Texas. I had been googling my mum’s name (a name we shared) a little while after she died. It was, I suppose, a consciously futile attempt to find her again.