Margaret Holmes, a self-described Renaissance Dilettante has not yet found a topic of no interest nor has she found a role model. Travel, performance, hang gliding, volunteering, teaching, dieting-although each amusing in its own way, none was enough. Those who did these things full time were to be admired, but not necessarily emulated. In what has become a surprisingly lengthy life, whenever two roads diverged, she usually selected the one less suitable. That has made a lot, if not all, the difference. Oh well.