Returning to parenting after 16 months on the campaign trail. During the presidential campaign I kept a list of questions for the candidates. “Are you wearing underwear?” was not on it. But this was the question I yelled into the street as my 8-year-old daughter vaulted into the car before the drive to school. The election was over and I was on assignment. As part of Slate’s Reader Takeover, I asked readers which of the things that I’d neglected during my 16 months on the campaign trail I should return to, and write about. Slate readers, wise creatures, told me to reconnect with my children. Of course, I was planning to