I would find the dashboard more easy and intuitive to use if the text on the headers on the dashboard page ("recent comments", "stats", etc) were actually links going straight to the page in question. The word "stats" would be a link leading to the stats page, while clicking the arrow or the rest of the header would collapse or expand the box.
It makes more sense to me to click somewhere near that stats box to go to the stats page, than it does to backtrack to the left hand menu and click the name there.
The blog I need help with is indigorchid.wordpress.com.