The Powerful Effects of Handwriting on Your Brain

Alexandria Ducksworth
3 min readMar 25, 2021

James Arruda Henry has lived a long life. He managed to live so long with a literary education nowhere beyond the third grade. When Henry turned 98 years old, he published In a Fisherman’s Language (2011), a story about his former life as a humble fisherman.

For six years, he enhanced his reading and writing skills to compose his first book. While reading is an essential factor…

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