I guess you could say I am ambivalent about January. On one hand, I'm always happy to be finished with the frenzy of the holidays, but feeling glum with the prospect of the long winter days ahead. On the flip side, I love the fresh feeling of beginning a new year, but dread setting goals and planning for the coming months.

Creating goals and expectations for the New Year is a guaranteed stress-producer for me and maybe for you, too. We push ourselves (and everyone around us) right over the brink. So, here's to a more relaxed, more meaningful, but less rushed, less stressful New Year. May you and yours be blessed with health, joy, peace and love in 2008!

To celebrate its second year of providing valuable benefits to members, The Club at TallGrass offers a refreshing new list of elite privileges, gifts, complimentary services and savings for those who join our ultimate rewards program.

Highlighting the benefits that our members like best, we put together an attractive list for 2008, one for each month. January's gift, for example, is a complimentary Tension Tamer Massage. In February, members receive a complimentary Aveda Lip Saver.

All throughout the year, the collection of gifts, services and benefits continues with a 20% savings on services for Monday through Thursday appointments (and 10% savings on services for anyone who accompanies a member), plus a complimentary Sage Room event rental.

The typical member saves over $1,700 each year and the membership fee is only $850 for the first 10 new or renewing members and $1,000 thereafter.

If you'd like more information, please call TallGrass owner, Gail Ridings, directly at 303-679-4466.

Are you planning to go greener in 2008? We are, too.

TallGrass has an aggressive green program. We recycle paper, plastic, glass and aluminum. We recycle linens and slippers and we even have a custom-built prototype washing machine that reuses the last rinse water of one load in the first wash cycle of the next.

We use cloth towels and glass cups and we write notes on paper cut from saved photocopier paper. We burn candles made of soy wax and we burn wood logs in our Great Room fireplace. We are actively involved with Earth Month projects and we support Aveda's commitment to providing you with high-performing, organic, plant-based products.

For 2008, we have dozens of ideas for ways to become even greener. As we research and adopt new green programs, we'll share the information with you because we think you'll be interested in adopting some of these in your businesses and homes, too.