Dana Does It

...because if you can do it, Dana does it. A weblog of the adventures that ensue.

[danadoesit]

An Odd Animal Alphabet

A children's alphabet book featuring some of our planet's more unique and unusual animals!

How fun is this!?

[danadoesit]

Ladies! and anyone with a cervix!

WATCH NOW.

[danadoesit]

For a minute there, my application essay became a manifesto

Since the moment I decided to go back to school for nursing, I have always known that I wanted to be a Family Nurse Practitioner. There is no field where the need is so acute, and yet, so oblique. What to refer and what to have patience with and watchfully wait? To train to be a jack of all trades means also to bear the humility of being a master of none. There is another side to it though, the side that asks, “what would it mean to really, honestly, trust our patients?”  We’d have to educate them more, perhaps. But really, we’d have to listen. A LOT. We’d have to ask more questions, maybe, but we’d have to listen to their answers. We’d have to believe that all people have a right to understand and care for their bodies, and we’d have to respect that right, even when it made us mad. We’d have to start to soften our minds, and sometimes even our hearts, to the radical notion that even if the coats are white, the science need not be. That black and brown and every shape of body carries the same incredible laboratory we call the human body and the same tender, beating heart. That each beautiful vessel needs time to understand itself, in the language it desires, and that we, the nurses, the doctors, the physician’s assistants, the pharmacists, the therapists, the medical assistants, have the honor, but also the duty, to bring that truth to light. 

[danadoesit]

THIS.

[danadoesit]

The thing you gotta understand, bud, is the internet hates women.

- Adam Savage in his Moth appearance "Talking to My Kids in the Internet Age"

http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/adam-savage

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. 

[nprontheroad]

Sochi’s mascot polar bear is everywhere: posing for pictures at the Sanki Sliding Center, dancing to “Blurred Lines” at a women’s hockey game, high-fiving fans at the men’s hockey game between Russia and Slovenia, hugging a small child so hard one might wonder how the child could breathe.

Sochi bear is so ubiquitous one might wonder whether there’s more than one of him. The answer may be that he gets a ride from venue to venue. But based on this destined-to-go-viral video, getting into a car isn’t without complications when you have an oversized head.

[danadoesit]

The only thing I love more than costumed mascots might them struggle with wardrobe malfunctions. 

[justkeepbreathingnow]

I took it upon myself to collect all of the best #westwingvalentine’s I could find online and combine them with my TWW candy hearts to make one big west-wingy-valentiney post of goodness.

you can thank me later

[danadoesit]

West wing! Puns! Alwaysforeverplease

[plannedparenthood]

To: you

xoxo your birth control.

Totally loving these Valentine’s Day cards from Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, & South Dakota.

[danadoesit]

Ermagerd, I love puns almost as much as I love responsible family planning.

[sesamestreet]

Elmo’s Christmas Countdown airs on PBS on December 11th! From the special, here’s Brad Paisley singing Jingle Bells with GROVER!

[danadoesit]

The inexplicable seal cameo at 0:45 is making my day. 

[danadoesit]

Don't you just love the Center on Halsted? I do. This Saturday, I will be running in the Santa Speedo Run (wearing a Jewish bikini) to benefit their amazing work, including the development of a brand new senior housing center. Let's make #givingTuesday a thing, and donate to their good work:https://community.centeronhalsted.org/SpeedoDonations You'll find my name in the runner pull down list.

[beatonna]

I figured out your sexy halloween costume for you

[danadoesit]

THIS.

[npr]

The Mist and Mystique of Dry Ice 

[danadoesit]

Apparently this teen is famous? Right up until I figured that out, I was super excited about this piece of Citizen Science. 

[wwdtm]

Here’s what’s making us laugh uncontrollably/teaching us valuable lessons about the internet this week. 

[danadoesit]

Oh man. 

[danadoesit]

Your mother is so classless, she could be a marxist utopia. 

[dinosaurparty]

(via "Vaccines. And now my kids don’t die.")

[danadoesit]

Did you know your child is more likely to be on a US Olympic Team than have a vaccine reaction? Really.

[danadoesit]

In a New Act of Valor, Medal of Honor Recipient Thanks His Shrink

After what seems like endless news about the deplorable and dilapidated state of mental health care in America, there's this:  

A Medal of Honor recipient directs his comments to the American Public and thoughtfully discusses the "invisible wounds of war." I feel emboldened with a sense nationalism and a renewed hope that maybe, somehow, it gets better. 

[dinosaurparty]

(via If This Is A Blog Then What’s Christmas? - Very, very good)

Humor is an effective tool.

[danadoesit]

kimiinchicago did you see this? Can we put this in a policy brief somewhere? 

...and yes, I will still help you even if Marco Rubio destroys your home.